I was asked today to write about a hat!
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The good thing is that it travels well.
It has little style
only patterned stitch work
marks its drab coarse surface.
Khaki cover for a nascent bald patch,
a guard against the mid-day sun.
Refuge and launch pad
for a Kalahari praying mantis,
shade for massive locusts in Panama,
then offering minimal protection
in a Venezuelan downpour,
— but it travels well
and has been so far
that it always makes the case.
