I love
the black hat 

it feels great
to say that 

look close
white hat’s

dirty
while black hat’s

not
or not showing anyway

I love the black hat 
just for that

how in its blackness
it absorbs what it attracts

and if you call it
symbolic of evil or uniform

for outlaw games then
you miss that it integrates

messy experience more than
the white hat does

I love putting on
the black hat

watching people hear me
differently

seeing what I can
slip by with

learning so much more
than if I were villainous

in
white