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You throw away your old shoes when you are done with them
And forget the dusty miles that you will have to walk
To a grocery store to buy another pair
A grocery store that won't let you in without the shoes
That you no longer have, naked feet kneading dirt
When you run home and find only the sooty trail
And empty bin left by the garbage truck.
Shoeless now you will wander through life
Barred from stores, restaurants, parks.
You will have to set up a tent on the sidewalk
And move into the median between the two ways of the street.
You will become a part of the written-off margin
Of people who threw away their pasts too fast
And therefore sacrificed their futures.

Description
You throw away your old shoes when you are done with them
And forget the dusty miles that you will have to walk
To a grocery store to buy another pair
A grocery store that won't let you in without the shoes
That you no longer have, naked feet kneading dirt
When you run home and find only the sooty trail
And empty bin left by the garbage truck.
Shoeless now you will wander through life
Barred from stores, restaurants, parks.
You will have to set up a tent on the sidewalk
And move into the median between the two ways of the street.
You will become a part of the written-off margin
Of people who threw away their pasts too fast
And therefore sacrificed their futures.