Friday, April 08, 2022

Still Life with Boots


Found hear the high water mark in South Queensferry: A pair of boots abandoned for no obvious reason. Forgotten by the owner, perhaps a tourist, high and dizzy by being so close to the Forth Railway Bridge presumably. An engineering icon from before the dawn of time and even before the invention of Steampunk, all made of girders from Motherwell etc.

Many visitors are affected and moved when seeing it's red glow and magnificence up close for the first time, but few leave their footwear behind. So the boots remain a local mystery, like some fictional based criminal mindset with it's blundering modus operandi, we'll never understand those twisted depths and we'll never quite know the real truth.

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