The Love-Hat Relationship by Aaron Belz
I have been thinking about the love-hat relationship.
It is the relationship based on love of one another’s hats.
The problem with the love-hat relationship is that it is superficial.
You don’t necessarily even know the other person.
Also it is too dependent on whether the other person
is even wearing the favored hat. We all enjoy hats,
but they’re not something to build an entire relationship on.
My advice to young people is to like hats but not love them.
Try having like-hat relationships with one another.
See if you can find something interesting about
the personality of the person whose hat you like.
The first thing that stands out to me about this poem is that it is free verse. Too often, almost, we see poems written within a rigid structure, and sometimes seeing free verse is a sort of breath of fresh air from the traditional sonnet or ballad. The author uses hats as a social commentary about the depth of human connection in today's society by calling it "superficial." We are obsessed with the physical, the appearance, of people nowadays, instead of focusing on what's more important, "the personality." There's no rhyme scheme at all, and the meter is totally varied. I chose this poem because it addresses how interpersonal relationships in today's world are just a "like-hat" relationship perceived as a "love-hat" relationship. Indeed, as Belz bluntly states: "they're not something to build an entire relationship on."
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