A Sonnet about Why I Cut my Hair in 2017

They ask me to portray Escartefigue

In Pagnol's classic, set in old Marseille.

I balk but not from shyness or fatigue;

My hair's too long to fit a '30s play.

 

They say, you'll play the captain of a ship;

He wears a cap and never takes it off.

Just braid your hair and fix it with a clip;

They'll never know you've no Depression coif.

 

That works for "Marius," and then "Fanny"

Nobody knows the captain is long-haired!

But in the third part of the trilogy

A funeral, and all the heads are bared.

 

I only cut my hair to serve my art.

Heck, once I got tattooed to land a part.
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Please note that "Fanny" is accented on the second syllable. Because she's French, yknow.