2022, everyday words, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

the politics of a hat

It’s all in how you wear your hat. This
we learned from movies and from TV.
Black hat hackers should probably
pay revenue to Howard Hawks and
old TV westerns for not having been
“beige hatters.” Then there’s that
haberdashery scene in Murphy’s Romance
in which James Garner elucidates
the different messages sent
by hat angles upon the head, resting
finally with the straight pulled down brim
for serious bar fighters and bullshitters
which all men are anyway and Sally Field
well, she just rolled her eyes and
sashayed her faded jeans away.

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