Big Foot
A Shoe In
By: Charles Giuliano - May 27, 2018
Big Foot
Oh to be well shod
Not some friggin’ clod
Wacko clodhopper
Ain't hip to the jive
Clomping on sod
Clog dancing
Clink clanking in barns
Smiles of a summer night
Romps in the hay
Two backed straw dogs
Unstuffed scarecrows
Raggedy Anns flopping about
Amos and Andy
When they were funny
So many shoes in my closet
Dozens of pairs
Fit for all occasions
From Beatle Boots to clogs
Them what was copped in Copenhagen
When I knocked back schnapps
Lunch with hipster Dexter Gordon
Acid flashbacks to
Summer of 1968
Strawberry pink kicks
Purple pimp suits
Living in the ghetto
Fort Hill Roxbury
Looking fresh
When it seemed to matter
More flash than substance
Living outside the law
Urban cowboy
High noon on mean streets
Shoe in for mayhem
Street fighting man
Signed, sealed, delivered
Swathed in Purple Haze
A half century on
Hoist the gonfalon
Now just two pairs
Stout ones for winter
Slosh of Berkshire slush
Summer Topsiders
Like rotating tires
Gottah have wheels man
Groovin’ on down the road
Highway to hell and back
Stairway to heaven
Where angels go barefoot
There ain't no mirrors
All is vanity
Slip sliding sanity
Long and winding road
Fab Four no more
I am the walrus