<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384019" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Exchanging Hats</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unfunny uncles who insist<br>in trying on a lady's hat,<br>--oh, even if the joke falls flat,<br>we share your slight transvestite twist</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in spite of our embarrassment.<br>Costume and custom are complex.<br>The headgear of the other sex<br>inspires us to experiment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Anandrous aunts, who, at the beach<br>with paper plates upon your laps,<br>keep putting on the yachtsmen's caps<br>with exhibitionistic screech,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the visors hanging o'er the ear<br>so that the golden anchors drag,<br>--the tides of fashion never lag.<br>Such caps may not be worn next year.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or you who don the paper plate<br>itself, and put some grapes upon it,<br>or sport the Indian's feather bonnet,<br>--perversities may aggravate</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the natural madness of the hatter.<br>And if the opera hats collapse<br>and crowns grow draughty, then, perhaps,<br>he thinks what might a miter matter?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unfunny uncle, you who wore a<br>hat too big, or one too many,<br>tell us, can't you, are there any<br>stars inside your black fedora?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aunt exemplary and slim,<br>with avernal eyes, we wonder<br>what slow changes they see under<br>their vast, shady, turned-down brim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Bishop">Elizabeth Bishop</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384019" data-title="Exchanging Hats de Elizabeth Bishop" data-description="Unfunny uncles who insist in trying on a lady's hat, --oh, even if the joke falls flat, we share your slight transvestite twist in spite of our embarrassment. Costume and custom are complex. The headgear of the other sex inspires us to experiment..."></div> </div> </div>

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