Orange-scented morning
Wonderfully fragrant shave today, beginning with the Wild Orange shave stick from QED, which, with the Simpsons Duke 3 Best, produced a fine lather. The Mekur Slant bar, with a used Feather blade, delivered a good shave, but the Feather was on its last legs, and the Feather (at least for me) delivers tiny nicks as it dies—inexplicable nicks, in a flat expanse of skin. Nothing serious and easily stopped with My Nik Is Sealed, but still… One of the reasons I’m no longer so fond of the Feather as I once was. Royall Mandarin was a fine orange-scented aftershave.
I’ve read that there’s no word in English to rhyme with “orange,” but I knew a poet at the Writers Workshop at the U of Iowa who thought that “door hinge” would serve as a rhyme.
He wondered, while enjoying an orange,
Whose plays were best -
Williams, Miller, O’Neill, or Inge?
Robert
28 June 2009 at 1:14 pm