Wednesday, March 19, 2025

HATS

 

In the picture it is late 1955 and you

Have on an admirable fake-leather hat

With earflaps which I thought

Fairly marked your status as

A seven year old and the oldest

Of us. At half-past three

I, having no say about my headgear,

Wear a shapeless wool thing

Made by an aunt who'd obviously

Accepted her sister's dare

To shut her eyes and knit a hat

While wearing boxing gloves.

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