Theme Thursday: “shoe”

Kat’s shoes: Crocs, Adidas, Pink Puffies,Golden Glads (for KK-B) (Please don’t look at my dirty floors!)

Waiting For the Other Shoe…

I’ve heard that some women go gaga

for cobbled goods– Manolos and Gucci shoes

Fendi’s and Jimmy Choos.

There’s that old joke about Imelda Marcos

that crops up when a lady collects

too many.

All these stereotypes:

Closets full of shoes and handbags–

another myth like that infamous line:

“Do I look fat in this?”

I don’t really care about shoes.

Less than 10 pair resides

in my closet–

Crocs, runners,sandals and slippers …

if the shoe fits … I’ll wear it.

What’s of much more interest to me,

are those isolated roadside runaways —

the pair of plimsoles dangling from a tree

or telephone wire, the old boot

rotting on the beach, the luxury-loafer

on the freeway verge.

How does a person lose one shoe? (It’s

inevitably a man’s, have you noticed?)

Is it tossed casually from an open car-window?

Perhaps, dapper drunk dude dangled

his foot over the edge?

Or maybe something more sinister

is afoot?

Kathleen Mortensen©2009