Running across hot piles, the dunes of my feet
Across the white whirlpools of winding waves
Inside the dusty closet, your stripes of vibrancy lure the children
Never wanting to dull the daring sparkles, like July fireworks
Blessing your player with volleys of Olympians
Offering skills to those whose eyes lock onto you
When only the most infatuated ones unlock your full potential
Bending vertebrae and crushing expectations
Even the unathletic understand you are not just a mere toy
Aspirations were set by the youth after their experiences
Crushing nets of tangled white, you are the favorite toy of Zeus
Here is where we had our first tango
Blinding eyes and decorating skies
All on the hottest beach north of luxury Miami
Little children and parents alike yearn for your pop of color
Lovely sandbanks and crowded waters of salt are your motherland~
Sneakers that move on a hard bounce,
talking trash a lot ...
you don’t wanna put those feet
in your mouth
Irreverent voices of frivolity,
issuing utterances of demeaning words
Squashing low-esteem bugs is guaranteed ...
sneaker speakers love to be heard
But I ain’t really listening to a word they say,
simple-minded speech don’t swish my sway
And the trash just keeps spewing out
from their enamel pie hole,
double dribbles piling up funky bold
There be a lot of unathletic sneaker voices
being sold I’m told
Pot-bellied speakers that look graying and old
Politician playground trash talk
tweet bouncing on the cyber asphalt
Locker room misogynist speakers
is fake rubber bottom lips being bought
Synthetic vulcan words ... verbal trash that rots
Believe me,
you don’t wanna put those sneakers
in your mouth
So keep your ears open,
and your mouth shut
when in doubt
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