"Progress" by Leonard Cochran appeared in The Atlantic in October, 2004:
Battling cascading
steam, my ancientneighbor would face
his fogged mirror,cutthroat razor
mowing down, up,piratical blade
making everystroke a page torn
from a life storytold the hard way,
because "Someone,by God, has to keep
the old skills alive."
(Photo of a barber shaving a client in the streets of the Medina in central Tunis. By Martin Bureau / AFP/Getty Images)
The Dish 