Tuesday, April 30, 2024

You can leave the hat on (2012-13)

  

As soon as I see her in that hat

I think of the strip tease song

Randy Newman wrote

About leaving the hat on,

Or maybe that 80s pop song

About sending in the detectives

She’s everything I might ever

Want in a private eye,

The hat tilted,

Her large eyes peering

Out from under the brim,

Pink, painted lips poise,

Cynical, attractive

Maybe demanding a kiss,

I keep that picture

In my phone to look at

When I wake up

Anxious at night,

My personal Dick Tracy

The gumshoe

I ache to find

Knocking at my door,

Those eyes, those lips,

That hat

And I tell her,

“You can leave

The hat on.”



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