Today’s poem was always on the shortlist but at the last minute supplanted another book I was considering writing about. It came about given how I spent part of my afternoon — underneath an oak glade as the afternoon sun set. It seemed quite obvious to flip out that other book for this one — or these ones — as there’s no definitive text & multiple versions of the wonderful tales of the Merry Men of Robin Hood. The Factoid is likewise connected to that medieval gang.

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LM #05 — Robin Hood

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Day 26 Factoid — coiffures in the Greenwood 

Will Scarlet and the Hairdresser 

in the earliest ballads 
Will Scarlet was but 
a background character

called Will Scathlock
Middle English sc(e)afan  “to shave” 
& locc meaning “hair” 

in other words 
Will Scarlet was originally
a skinhead