After I shaved my beard [vers libre]

"We should have done a champaigne toast"
remarked Tim Doyle an intellectual property
attorney in the electronics group

"I didn't recognize you! I almost
called security" quipped Tracy Müller
an associate in the biotech group

otherwise things seemed normal
the boyish babyface that I'd kept
in hiding was back on display

while the black gone grey and
then white had suddenly vanished
from sight   for the moment