Wearing Hat

The frilly boy went to work
- ( ) must work to feed bodies -
It was cold so ( ) wore ( ) hat on ( ) head
covering ( ) velvet hairs cut short
for feels.

Wearing ( ) hat, ( ) slips a little bit
further under awareness.
“Don’t look at ( ). ( ) can’t keep
Explaining, so ( ) will fall without
having to talk
- talking shows others ( ) have
worth, and ( ) mustn’t make ( )
uncomfortable.”

So the frilly boy played quietly
in a way others saw as work,
but the secret is (hers) kept.

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Wearing Hat is part of a larger poetry project by Dicky Dutton that will be released later this year.