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With Love, From Colin
With Love, from Colin.
I open the package
I got in the mail
With my utility knife
It slices through the tape
And I watch the plastic split
Like Moses and the Red Sea
I take out
Two ratty sneakers
Two grimy Chuck Taylors
A dingy red color
One white patch on each shoe
Graying, with a
Big
Blue
Star.
Dirt still embedded
In the space between the shoe and rubber.
Still smells like feet,
The inside worn down from years of walking.
A small note inside:
“Keep running kid. Colin would’ve loved a sappy story like that.
Love,
Matty”
I slip them on carefully
Tie the fraying, grungy laces,
And I Run.
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