"I don't remember when I began to see men wearing sneakers
with untied laces dangling on the ground,
Aimee wrote.
"But soon they were all over town.
It was not a fashion that I was familiar with
so, I began to think that it had some meaning -
like the single red baby sneaker
that lay on an otherwise empty cafe table,
or the pile of discarded Microsoft mice_____
that I found in the bushes near the railway station,
_____or the graceful women with wooden canes
who walked by wearing flowery long dresses
with more regularity than is statistically possible."

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