Free verse № 69054
Shoe Hole
Look at the God-damn shoe hole.
Curse the Phillips stick-sole.
Only out for a short stroll,
When the bloody thing wore through.
Look at the state of the uppers,
Ain't no high-steppin' strutters,
Rather be home behind shutters,
Than walking these gardens of Kew.
Look at the knotted laces.
Certain they've seen a few places.
A proper pair of disgraces.
I just don't know what to do.
Wish I'd settled for cloggies.
They don't get bitten by doggies
And they stop you sinking in boggies
But cost a penny or two.
Sod it I think I'll go barefoot
(As long as I don't step in bear poop).
Suppose that I'd just better bear up
And stop all this hullabaloo.
Thank you.
9 comments
I'm stuck by "Phillips stick-sole" - is that a type of rubber sole, like Vibram? As an aside, I was watching "Enterprise", and as the aliens climbed the ladder I could see the bottoms of their boots and that orange oval "Vibrams"; oops.
Only a couple of the rhymes seemed forced (first felt it with "shutters", "boggies" a bit too). I bet you could firm up the last quatrain.
At any rate, it is a very fun one. How on earth did you come up with it? I mean, "shoe hole" isn't exactly a common idea.
blessed with 7
YOU ARE A FRAUD, A PLAGIARIST, AND A THIEF!
YOU ARE A FRAUD, A PLAGIARIST, AND A THIEF!
Long live Rankin.
If anyone out there would like to see more of Roberts work (the real author of this poem and others that bobjim has stolen)then please look him up. You can probably already see he has a large and devoted fanbase. He would appeal to anyone found of Jasper Fforde or Terry Pratchett (although he wouldn't thank me for saying that!)and is a very compelling author of far fetched fiction; his body of work is prolific and he usually has a large amount of shelf space in all major bookshops.
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