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Scott Simpson · Poetry

The Hat You Wear

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Use For Kindling · source pages 63, 64

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Source page 63

The Hat You Wear

She grew up west

of the river where real

farmers wore cowboy hats—

Source page 64

east river boys wore

ball caps and that

meant something.

It always starts young:

what you're told means

strong, means real,

means one of us.

But hats are just hats,

until someone hands you

one and tells you who

you are before

you choose it.

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