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POPSpoem: "Lotus" by B. Durbin Remainder of poem: And yet, one wonders how much travelled along the Silk Road, if a Frenchman, perhaps, heard the tales of the tiny feet, the grace of the Lotus Walk, the delicately embroidered shoes, and it sparked a tale of fortune's turn about, the dispossessed coming back into her own. He wouldn't have heard the details; three-year-olds handed over to foot-binders to break them for beauty. We have a knack for finding those things beautiful which are harmful in the end. Arsenic complexions belladonna eyes compressed and corseted waists— perhaps the only surprising thing is that it ended. It endured for a thousand years.
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POPSShoes = BAD / UNHEALTHY, Barefoot = GOOD / HEALTHY “Natural gait is BIOMECHANICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for any shoe-wearing person,” wrote Dr. William A. Rossi in a 1999 article in Podiatry Management. “It took 4 million years to develop our unique human foot and our consequent distinctive form of gait, a remarkable feat of bioengineering. Yet, in only a few thousand years, and with one carelessly designed instrument, our shoes, we have warped the pure anatomical form of human gait, obstructing its engineering efficiency, afflicting it with strains and stresses and denying it its natural grace of form and ease of movement head to foot.” In other words: Feet good. Shoes bad. The shoes in the clip are Vibram Five Fingers. My feet are healthier than they've EVER BEEN in those things. I won't buy a pair of sneakers EVER AGAIN. I'm looking into leather jazz/dance shoes for work. Seriously, shoes are THE ENEMY, GO BAREFOOT. Your shoes are the equivalent of foot binding .
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