“I’m not Einstein but I am smart enough to know a bad idea when I see it taking up space, bidding it’s time.”   David Clewell

Shoes,

I wear them but I don’t like them.

Those walls of leather

stitched together

to make a prison for my feet,

and again,

and again,

and again,

my toesstruggletogetfree.

The big ones lift and stand momentarily alone,

the two next to it cringe

and the little ones on the end

push against

the walls. The leather

s t r e t c h e s slightly,

but gradually,

one-by-one,

the toes tire

and surrender

to the bottom

of the shoe.