a shoe//or multiple shoes

by Fred Aiken

some people say there’s a shoe out there for every foot,
but i don’t know if that shoe would fix the scar from the ganglion cyst surgery i had in my twenties,
nor the hangnail that’s developed on my right big toe that begins to hurt
before hurricane season,
but who knows, seems like medical science is making marvelous discoveries
every day about how to walk from one side of the country to the next