Hanging Shoes

There are things that I just do not yet understand, I admit it. A pair of shoes, tied together by the laces, and flung over some telephone wire is one of them.

I watched just such a pair of shoes, about a block down the street from my apartment. Those shoes remained dangling from that high wire during sun and storm, fog and mist, month after month. Maybe even year after year.

Then one day, with a start, I noticed they were gone. Where they went, who or how they were removed remains just as much of a mystery as to why they were there in the first place, or who put them there. It was odd, but I actually seemed to miss them.

Recently while watching a T.V. movie, there was just such a pair of shoes, hanging from a high wire, in one scene. It reminded me that this ‘shoe’ phenomenon seems to have faded into the past, and that the movie I was watching was not a new production.

But it also reminded me that I didn’t have a clue as to what the ‘hanging shoe thing’ was all about to being with. I wanna know!