how did medusa do her hair?

the question fills me with despair.

it must have caused her sore distress

that head of curling snakes to dress.

whenever after endless toil

she coaxed it finally to coil,

the music of a passing band

would cause each separate hair to stand

on end and sway and writhe and spit,—

she couldn't "do a thing with it."

and, being woman and aware

of such disaster to her hair,

what could she do but petrify

all whom she met, with freezing eye?