THE CHUB
It’s called the chub in Ukrainian – a Kozak scalp lock. Something like a Mohawk haircut, with head shaved on the sides and back, and with a tuft going down just off the side of the center of your skull from the crown of your head to your brow. It was just a little shorter than a punk version of the Mohawk – the hairs were about an inch and a half in length. Nicholas had thought about getting the retro-traditional haircut after he had seen one on a tour guide of a museum of ethnographic art. A local poet by the name of Nazar also used to have one. The look appealed to him right away in his ethno-heightened state of awareness. And he needed a haircut since he was feeling pelekhatyj as his grandmother used to say in diasporan Ukrainian, scraggly. Someone had told him that the Kozaks
