work bootsseven holed size eleven ankle high onyx black mud-kickers w/ ridgeway treads leather footbeds furrowed at full grained toes (grinding, binding) (moiling, toiling) (drudgery, fudgery, trudgery) are they working? wrestling w/ the divine days steeped in clangor cahoots & other soots flung fomently into a path are they working, the boots? (slogging, dragging, slugging) (hauling, trawling, heaving) BOOTS FOR HIRE! BOOTS FOR HIRE! no walk-arounds just plodding right through w/ tight bellows tongue the only pass |