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."

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