Scuff

We scuff shoes

And Harlemize everything

Bottle cap tap mongrels

Soft leather uppers

Stiff shank

Institutional strength impishness

Left soggy from heat and sweat

Then rolled down the sidewalk

Then cleared for a shuffle

A shuffle hop step

The resident Hoteps

 Long since considered the batty of the bunch

Either rounded up or corner-faced

Made to look like fortune tellers

Shahs in mind and spirit

Still slaves in body

We do that

We scoff

And moralize

Demineralize 

Then set fire

To make sure no oil

Goes home