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Buying A Hat

from Recycled by Mike Rawlins

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Buying A Hat

We’re buying a hat,
The heat bears down upon us
As we walk these limestone streets under the sun.
We’re buying a hat.
The breeze that brushes skin is hot
And carries no sensation of relief.
You’d think that after all these years
That I would understand just how this goes.
And there before us is a thing that
Sits upon your head just so
And holds itself with charm and grace
And compliments your face
Just like a hat.
Is this the hat?
Turns out it’s not.
So we move on.

We’re buying a hat.
And I wonder at the things I still
Don’t know about you after all this time.
We’re buying a hat.
Not knowing only serves to feed
This thing I know to be my love for you.
I assume there is a kind of logic,
Underpins this act of buying hats.
And, though I do not know it, every
Time you choose to show it is
A clue that shows the you that makes
You ... you.
Just like a hat
Is just a hat.
Or maybe not.
And we move on.

We’re buying a hat.
And, though for me a hat is just
A hat and for you that just isn’t true.
We’re buying a hat.
I find that still I long to understand
This random walk under the sun.
And, if I knew just how it works,
Then would I share it, take it for my own?
Tell others that I’ve found the perfect
Way to buy this hat of hats?
Though I can buy ten hats within
Five minutes, at the most,
So, do I win
This game we play?
If it’s a game!
And, if it is,
When did it start?

Then I recall.
With some surprise,
I realise you chose me
In an instant.
You placed your lips
Against my ear
And whispered near ‘I love you.’
In that first moment.

Then I think that I must be,
For that to be the case,
A special kind of ‘me’,
So I rearrange my face to show
The pleasure this thought brings.
And, as you search the rack before us,
In my head the voice that sings
Repeats this joyous chorus;

We’re buying a hat.
We’re buying a hat.
We’re buying a hat.

(Spoken …aside)
(Is that it?
The one?
Try it on … turn round …
You’re perfect!)

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from Recycled, released November 20, 2017

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Hampshire based, singer-songwriter - finding out that starting late is no barrier - what matters is the music.

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