Lost and Found

this weekend, my friend lost his hat. it was a great hat, with a sort of snowflake pattern and a tail on the back. and it came from somewhere far away so is not easily replaced. it was lost on a trip to hoboken, so it really could have been anywhere.

he seemed kind of lost without it. he called all the places he'd been, but noone had seen it. he called a couple of times.

this hat has been lost before. on thanksgiving eve, it was left in a bar, but as soon as it was discovered missing he called and it had been found. we walked a long way to get it back. those were happy times.

last night, i was stuck in 30th St. station in philadelphia for a while, and while i was walking outside for a cigarette i saw a hat on the ground. i thought that if i picked it up and brought it to the lost-and-found, maybe in the mysterious ways of the world someone would also return my friend's hat. but just as i was a few steps away, a guy pointed to it and his friend picked it up and stuffed it in his pocket. he already had a pretty good hat on, but he also took someone's lost hat. i watched him and he didn't go to lost and found. i think the hat lives somewhere else now. so now i think that is what must have happened to the snowflake hat. maybe it lives in hoboken now.

Monday 08-Dec-03