Indie Scribe Magazine June 2014 | Page 53

I would rather like to be a hat

A caddish one, with a brim and perhaps a feather

And a red ribbon lining

That I could impart against your part

And sit rakish and jaunty upon your, shall we say, quiff

I would make the most whimsical of hairpieces

An obscurer of shy hairlines and greys

(What hirsute grace!)

A phrenological trickster, an adder of height

But! There's more!

In return for your legging me around

I would protect you from the zeffyest of breezes

From the spittliest rain and the shittiest birds

(Pardon my French)

And then, when you tired of me

And decided that maybe a beanie was the way to go

Or a coat with a gnomic hood

(It would be understandable)

I would rather like to be frisbeed across a pond

Where I could lie back and watch the

Breath of aeroplanes arcing by.