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they knew
about Billy D –
no, not that Billy Dee –

but,
Billy Dewalt,
the Billy who lived
out on Old Cabin Road –

everything
they knew about him

was true,

except
for maybe
his story about
that pork pie hat of his

and
where it came from.

nobody
in their right mind
believed he got it from Lester Young,

because
Lester died in 1959

and
that hat
couldn’t be
more than a couple years old,

and
it didn’t
really matter
where he got it, or when,

because
he sure did
look good in it, didn’t he?