Feat


I don’t trust white feet.

If they haven’t seen the sun,
how could they ever walk in my shoes?
Or pretend to.

Feet in robes?
Think flip-flops—
hardly up to the task,
if you ask me.

Blindfolded,
they go where they’re told,
peeking only at day’s end,
no longer pretending
they don’t smell,
or that they’re a size smaller, larger,
girl, boy.

Brown, cracked,
leather stretched over Goodyear soles—
those will give you miles
if you remember to rebalance, realign.
But who has time?

I don’t trust white feet.


3 responses to “Feat”

  1. Very interesting perspective. I may have to ponder this a bit.

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    1. That’s fair. Maybe I should have prefaced with an asterisk *white meaning nude, bare, unexposed.

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      1. I definitely got that- I was more intrigued by the ravages of life on the feet that you do evidently trust…

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