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  • Texas | Columns | "True Confessions and Mild Obsessions"

    Indecisive Summer Footwear Blues

    by Frances Giles

    Spring has sprung and Summer's here
    As in my closet I now peer.
    Cotton short sleeved shirts hang there,
    But my shoe rack's nearly bare.
    Last year's flip flops bit the dust,
    So now the choice is “want” or “must”.
    I really don't care for the style.
    They're not built to trudge a mile.
    Injection rubber, blobs of glue,
    How dare they call this thing a shoe!
    Still, I know that feet should breathe.
    A flip flop's thong ones' toes doth cleave,
    Senior toe apart from mates
    Resting on those rubber plates.
    So here I am at Wal Mart's door,
    I make my way 'cross miles of floor
    Until I spot them back in “Shoes”,
    Yellows, reds and greenish blues.
    I thought to buy two pairs, or three,
    But holy smokes! Oh, my!! Oh, me!!!
    These flip flops must be made of gold
    As on the price tag, big and bold,
    Fifteen bucks for multi colors,
    Merely ten for all the others.
    I'd sooner have a pair of sneaks
    That would last for many weeks.
    I waver, waffle, think aloud,
    My ranting starts to draw a crowd.
    Should I, must I, what to do?
    My mind is in a roiling stew.
    The skinflint in me says “No way!”
    The voice of reason begs me stay
    And buy some, please, for phalanges' sake.
    The choice is clear now that I make.
    A pair in each and every color,
    All the brights and e'en the duller.
    My wallet now is very light
    As I march out with latex bright
    On my barge sized nine point fives
    And know that I have saved toes' lives.


    © Frances Giles
    "True Confessions and Mild Obsessions" July 2, 2013 Column
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