Socks

I wore a pair of clean, new white socks today. Well, they actually have blue toes and a blue heel, but they were mostly white. And it was sort of bittersweet, since I knew that these socks would only be pure white for a few minutes, this morning, before they picked up some stain from my shoes, and from being worn outdoors, and before they eventually get washed and gain a more natural, dusty white color. They just can't be white forever. Alas.