Dead Man's Shoes

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Driftin' through the thrift boutique, I laid my eyes on em'Nothin' distinctive—they were tatty, russet, and threadbareCracked soles had expired long before the leather wanedNonetheless, they pulled and heaved at my egg-shaped ocularsEyelets watchi...

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Driftin' through the thrift boutique, I laid my eyes on em'
Nothin' distinctive—they were tatty, russet, and threadbare
Cracked soles had expired long before the leather waned
Nonetheless, they pulled and heaved at my egg-shaped oculars
Eyelets watching, selecting, evaluating, weighing, soliciting my curiosity
A pair of loathsome loitering loafers, giddy to flap their tongues
To spill the spiel blanketed in antiquity

Duo, impregnated with many sordid secrets of a man
Who had possessed them, one who had died

They shuffled with alarming glee
Having found a singular audience captured by curiosity
My hand juddered reaching out to them
They sang sweetly, slip us on, and come see
They explained Bane is our cordwainer
We desperately want two cozy new hosts
Apprehension gave way to inquisitiveness

I gazed upon the dust outline on the shelf of that decrepit duet
Almost about to slip them on, sixteen eyelets smiled in reprehensible elation
I asked who did you belong to before?
They stated don't worry your piggy's about those unimportant details
But know he acquired the most delicious adventures we could fabricate, you can too

In that moment, alarm crept up my spine like a spider stalking a moth
Rapid ponder, putting back this menacing pair

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