No one item is more frequently left out on the floor, none more widely discarded in locations all across our home, than socks. Peeled off, slipped out of, dropped in place, flung across the room, left alone, left out, put down, balled up, draped along the thin armrest of a chair.

HILLBILLY HONK-HONK BY ERIC BARNES

34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 31

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