POET
Then you will have to leave your hat to its altered destiny.
CALLER
Why can't you think of a plan? If you're a poet, thinking's rather in your line.
POET
If I could bring my thoughts to contemplate so absurd a thing as a hat for any length of time no doubt I could think of a plan, but the very triviality of the theme seems to scare them away.
CALLER (rising)
Then I must get it myself.
POET
For Heaven's sake, don't do that! Think what it means!