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Cobbler

Dan Fitzgerald

She looks down
at my broken shoelaces,
and begins to cry at
the homelessness of my shoes.
“It is alright”, I say,
pulling the barely clean napkin
from my pocket to dry her tears,
“my other shoes are doing fine,
working quite steadily with
another pair of feet”.
She laughs at seeing the wrinkled smile
in my near-sighted eyes.
Crystalline streams hesitate
at the rims of her eyes as she
scans the worn leather of my face.
Then she laughs again,
handing out a bill, moving past me.
I watch her walk away as I shove
the money into my coat.
“thank you, kindly”, I say,
shuffling down the street on my
broken-backed shoes,
like a shy schoolboy
afraid of tripping over
his own feet.

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