Churchill made his dashing

Chaplin made his funny

Lincoln made his historic

and rather gently human.

Washington made his patriotic

and Roy Rogers made his tough

yet gentle.

The Lone Ranger made his stand for goodness

while my papa chose his black,

and was in the end just as good,

though slightly less wholesome.

Then there is old Saint Nick

and how could I forget Captain McFadden?

Never I say! Never!

hats, hats, hats

the topper to a head

the identifier of a soul

the essence of a man who has

an ugly head

and chooses to cover it

with glory!

Great Write Kat! Very much enjoyed! It reminded me of one of my all time favorite poems by James Tate. Only yours is more oppropriately titled to it's write in my opinion. Hope you don't mind.

BTW, My hats off to you!

The List of Famous Hats

Napoleon's hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famous hat, but that's not the hat I have in mind. That was his hat for show. I am thinking of his private bathing cap, which in all honesty wasn't much different than the one any jerk might buy at a corner drugstore now, except for two minor eccentricities. The first one isn't even funny: Simply it was a white rubber bathing cap, but too small. Napoleon led such a hectic life ever since his childhood, even farther back than that, that he never had a chance to buy a new bathing cap and still as a grown-up--well, he didn't really grow that much, but his head did: He was a pinhead at birth, and he used, until his death really, the same little tiny bathing cap that he was born in, and this meant that later it was very painful to him and gave him many headaches, as if he needed more. So, he had to vaseline his skull like crazy to even get the thing on. The second eccentricity was that it was a tricorn bathing cap. Scholars like to make a lot out of this, and it would be easy to do. My theory is simple-minded to be sure: that beneath his public head there was another head and it was a pyramid or something.

Me tips me hat to you dear lady of vision

I can't stop reading this poem....


I it!

The depth and feeling. So many layers.

Nice write, I liked this one.

Topping!