when you're young
a pair of 
female
high-heeled shoes
just sitting
alone
in the closet
can fire your
bones;
when you're old
it's just
a pair of shoes
without
anybody
in them
and 
just as 
well.

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Poet: Charles Bukowski
Poem: Shoes

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