First Of Many
It’s still dark when I am awakened by a sharp kick to the face by an early-morning, manly jogger: ‘Wake up, lazy slave, and kiss my feet!’ As I get my bearings, and remember the horror of my position of permanent public servitude, I apologise most profusely to the master-sir: ‘Oh pray, master sir. Pray forgive me, master sir. I apologise for my slothfulness sir. I kiss your feet, master sir.’ A public footslave like me must always apologise for having been asleep, since, by Law, he is on duty 24 hours a day! I am sound asleep as the early-morning, jogging master-sir approaches ‘Wake up, lazy slave, and kiss my feet!’ ‘Oh pray, master sir. Pray forgive me, master sir. I apologise for my slothfulness sir. I kiss your feet, master sir.’ The master-sir most kindly, and forgivingly, stretches forth his right sneakered foot onto my menial mouth My first taste of SHOE and my first sight of SOCK on this new day! Oh how humbling! Oh how humiliating, that it should be a man's SHOE ...