INCREASE-DECREASE

…Vans, Vans, Tory Burch ballerinas (blech), Dunks, Brooks (must be a runner, slacks and trench) classic black oxford with tassles (maybe Johnston & Murphy, maybe Bruno Magli, definitely one or the other), black pump, black pump, black low heel (kitten heel?), brown hard bottom WTFs, Dunks, Jordans (baby size, 2 inches, but still Jordans), Converse, Timberlands (butters, old, before gum sole) Dunks, some weird sneaker I’m too old and square to know or care about, Prada (the sneakers, he’s confident now), Polo boots, polka dot wellies, Tretorn wellies, thong flip-flops (trippin), Uggs (…Uggs), Calvin Klein slip-ons (I remember them, when I was a stock boy at Lord & Taylor…yes a stock boy), not sure about those, or those, Jordans (Space Jams, I think. So out of the loop), or those, Supra I think (yeah, I think it says Supra on the back. Pink and black tiger stripes), combat boot, knee boots (butterscotch, equestrian knee boots wouldve been dope, but these are the regular ones with the funny back-of-the-knee gap) nice something-or-others but nice nonetheless, Converse (pink and black fat laces, writing on the side) black half shoe (toes and heels out, sole gone, I gotta have a quarter in here somewhere) and of course my old dirty McCalister boot (brown leather, worn at the toe)…

“Next stop on this train will be 14th Street, Union Square”