mademoiselles you and me pal second bottle ah she looks for me bonnet flapping yapping ruff chicken pastry yes she looks for me good let her look for me to tell me why she left me as i always knew she would i had thought she understood they have never understood and no reason that they should but if anybody could finishing the hat how you have to finish the hat how you watch the rest of the world from a window while you finish the hat mapping out a sky what you feel like planning a sky what you feel when voices that come through the window go until they distance and die until there s nothing but sky and how you re always turning back too late from the grass or the stick or the dog or the light how the kind of woman willing to wait s not the kind that you want to find waiting to return you to the night dizzy from the height coming from the hat studying the hat entering the world of the hat reaching through the world of the hat like a window back to this one from that studying a face stepping back to look at a face leaves a little space in the way like a window but to see it s the only way to see and when the woman that you wanted goes you can say to yourself well i give what i give but the woman who won t wait for you knows that however you live there s a part of you always standing by mapping out the sky finishing the hat starting on a hat finishing the hat look i made a hat where there never was a hat