On Bondage of Toes

Ode to the Toe Ring

Let's pause a while to cogitate

On things we don't oft contemplate

The value of the bare and simple toe

Whose beauty like a native wild

We cannot leave so undefiled

And so a new adornment trend must grow

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To fashion's dictate toes must bow

Their freedom we cannot allow

And so with decorous bands we gird them in

and jailors in their vanity

push boundaries of sanity

to perpetrate this vain and pointless sin

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and so I follow absently

in roles my peers have cast for me

to trap in shackles bright these digits bare

But now with jewel encrusted toes

with studded ears and perfect clothes

I realize I'll have to fix my hair