These Old Shoes

Egypt sits
frowning on dirty laces
purchased in a Michigan supermart.

They
these old shoes
have seen all sides of sunlight.

They
have carried his heart
comfortably across fresh fields
down brownstone streets.

Stretching beneath cafe tables
with wayward scholars,
truck drivers
in beer drinking communion
with poets of the road.

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