Tonight's Poet Corner: Sonnet Solstice #137

They Found A Shoe

by Belinda Roddie

They found a shoe, half-chewed, inside a man's

stomach. They couldn't figure out how he

had even shoved the damn thing in his mouth

and down his throat. It was a mystery,

but now they had to cut him open. It

took the whole day, but they extracted the

mess of a loafer and sewed him back up,

the nurses towing the guy into his

room while he was high as a kite on just

enough drugs to tranquilize a mammoth.

Later, they asked him what had inspired him

to eat a shoe. He said he thought because

it was leather, it'd taste like cow. He bit

his tongue hard when the doc said, "Idiot."