Climbing Mount Everest in flip flops is a bad idea.
Less than ten feet up you realize your mistake.
You can turn back, send away for boots and wait,
or you can fly to a south Florida Gulf coast beach
where boots would be the poorer choice
and flip flops would be brilliant.
There are many bad decisions,
most not so quickly discovered,
most not so easily recovered.
2/18/19
St. Petersburg, Florida