The Standard (Zimbabwe)

Billy goat

- By Temba Munsaka

Corporate beard;

Feral facial look,

Unruly even at peers!

Patriarcha­l authoritat­ive to the establishm­ent, Bulldozing staffers and pointing with the chin. Conservati­vely symmetrica­l,

Manly and bully,

To scare into submission!

Once summoned to the office,

You can’t stop gazing at the gold flocks!

Stubble;

Rugged edge over,

Provocativ­ely brittle, spiky and tawny ugly stubble! Stubborn and unruly,

Territoria­l in nature

Jealous, aggressive individual­s who are Preened narcissist­s!

Naturally egoistic,

Always about themselves

Five o’clock shadow,

Grizzled dark-forked mane designed to impress with self-accomplish­ments!

Sometimes fiercely tangled brush, Remarkably auburn grey in older men!

The beardstach­e;

Unkempt wedge-shaped shaggy hybrid,

Kept with a stubborn pride as if it were blue- chip stock!

Scant-silky-silly fair,

And grizzled short,

A sight never to forget!

Flaxen benignant grey,

Henry Cavill in Mission Impossible a bastion of masculinit­y-

The mowser at it with pristine stubble!

The full beard;

Daddy of beards,

No nonsense look

Can’t be bothered to shave, Straight-up beard! Colourless­ly unkempt rough wire brush! Ratty two- day hideous farce,

Like corn seedlings breaking the ground! Unkempt citadel of rugged manliness! Jarred Leto,

Who plays ‘Jesus’

A caricature of this free growth beard! Au naturel, a real scorcher for damsels!

The Van Dyke;

Colonel Sanders the ancestor,

To whip chickens into submission! Johnny Depp,

The contempora­ry scholar of the KFC chain, To enthrall damsels on the pirate ship! A goatee combo,

For the less than hirsute gentleman,

The glabrous Man!

Grey grizzly sooty,

Smoke and spices up in the strands,

To smite the diners

The full goatee;

Classical look,

Textbook style for midlife crisis! A patch on the chin,

As if to just prove manliness! Classical men adore it, Trimmed just right to vaporise lasses Johnson, the Rock,

An epitome of Billy the Goat!

The bandholz;

Big bushy lumberjack,

Raw, primal, caveman Masculinit­y!

Entirely unshaven and unattracti­ve, A remnant of the Victorian eraNorse mythology bequethmen­t!

The balbo;

Chin strip,

Unfamiliar skimpy,

And stingy exotic affair! Speckled with silver strands, To mesmerise prey!

Pierce Brosman,

A stronghold of the knockout look! Full length,

Detached moustache

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