This morning, driving in, listening to the Pogues’ “Hell’s Ditch” for the first time in a long while, I misheard a line in a song I once knew well. I thought it said someone had “vinegar hair.”

Vinegar hair.

What would vinegar hair look like? taste like? Under what circumstances would you describe someone as having vinegar hair? Is it necessary to know that before you do describe someone that way?

It’s going in the poem.

I’m off to doctor’s appointments, hope to c’mon back with a first draft before SPEAK… tonight.

I’d love to read it there. Theme is “flight”, by the way.

T