Bilbys, Trilbys and Terrible Poetry

Poet Billbifus Boddlecodger models well-metred style

It might surprise you to know that all Bilbys, male or female, young or old, wear trilbys as part of their Sunday best.

This is not because these hats look smashing on a Bilby’s pointy little face, or because a well-fitted trilby will sit firmly between the ears, although both are true. The choice of hat is due to a bilby’s inate love of poetry. The hat was adopted by the species in order to facilitate rhyming couplets when referring to themselves in poetry. Which is often. Way too often.

Bilby poetry makes the scribblings of depressed teenage emos look like Keats.