How to make a Shoe by John Parker Headley
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25013
is a whooping 4300 word POEM (!) about, well, how to make a shoe.
It starts with taking measurements, making a pattern, to cutting the leather and sewing all the parts together, to finally putting on the sole and finishing the shoe. The poem ends with
And it has gorgeous pictures too!Many parts have made the whole,
Some parts are much effected;
But when the parts are whole in one,
They do become respected.
The end is reached, we trust all safe,
After quite a travel;
Though the road was rough from place to place,
The thread did not unravel.
Anyone up for 30 minute poetry?
