If You Were A Shoe By Nike
If you were a shoe by Nike,
You would be better off than me.
If you were a shoe by Nike
You’d have Michael Jordan
To fly high and hard with on every tube there is
With Spike Lee down below making sure of the script so
The takeoffs and landings are just right for sight.
If you were a shoe by Nike
You’d have accountants and lawyers
To make sure you got the best deals,
And PR Mathematicians and Spin Doctors
To help us think we got it too.
If you were a shoe by Nike
You’d have scientists and engineers
Measuring the step and gait of everyone
Of every age of every sex of every race of every place
To make sure that your fit stayed good at all times.
If you were a shoe by Nike
You’d be welcome in any store of style
On any street or boulevard in any city
In any state or any province or any territory
In any country in the world.
If you were a shoe by Nike
You’d have trade agreements and fashion shoots
And tax breaks and people standing in long lines waiting
To fill out forms to have a chance to make you and other people
To watch over you in all loving grace while you did.
If you were a shoe by Nike
You’d have rich names asking for you by sign and reputation
And the rest of us giving up things that we need for your style
For awhile and secretaries and schedulers making sure you have the
time
To just do it.
If you were a shoe by Nike,
You would be better off than me.
But you are not, and neither am I; and so, what the hell,
No one ever got an Oscar for reality, or an MVP for just making it
through the day.
Besides, I get most of my stuff from K-Mart Blue-Lights anyways;
And that’s just the way things go.
Dennis Harrison.
If you've any comments on his poem, Dennis Harrison would
be pleased to hear from you.
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