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Coffee ring stains the left corner
Grease thumbprint near the sender
Weeds choke the lathe bed iron
Boot heels strike the same rhythm
I count steps in fading script
Thirty years and still equipped
Mailman dropped me, never returned
Workshop door stays stubbornly turned
Wrench set hangs on pegboard shadow
Sawdust cakes the windowsill shallow
Foreman's laugh shook the tin roof
Now just wind and rusted proof
I count steps in fading script
Thirty years and still equipped
Mailman dropped me, never returned
Workshop door stays stubbornly turned
Apprentice boots grew heavy soles
Master's cough rattled steel bowls
Paychecks pinned beside my face
Same spot held by dried-up paste
I count steps in fading script
Thirty years and still equipped
Mailman dropped me, never returned
Workshop door stays stubbornly turned
Rain warps the "Wish you were here"
Address blurred by atmosphere
Stamps cost less than diner pie
Now the building watches sky
Cardboard skin remembers pressure
Fingerprints become my texture
Every bootfall writes a line
History measured in boot and time
New boots crush the morning frost
Owner's son counts the lost
He reads my edges, turns me over
Pocket warm against the clover
I count steps in fading script
Thirty years and still equipped
Mailman dropped me, never returned
Workshop door stays stubbornly turned
Gravel crunches, ink holds fast
Last boot heel becomes the past