Typewriter Rodeo: Am I going bald?

Each week, the Standard reaches out to Austin’s Typewriter Rodeo for a custom poem on Texas topics.

By Sean PetrieOctober 3, 2025 10:30 am, ,

Am I going bald?

Each morning I check
A new angle in the mirror
Is that spot of scalp
Becoming clearer?

In my thirties I fretted
That my hair was thinning
But it was just bad lighting;
Or was that the beginning?

Perhaps in my forties
It was a tad less thicker
And I think the drain
Clogged a bit quicker

And now here we are
And I really shouldn’t care
But hey it’s a part of me
And I love my hair!

I tell myself change is good
As it starts to fall away
And now I smile at those bald spots
In between the gray.

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