Ski Yale Jewish oodiatrist lived across the street
he would write prescriptions for his patients
send them to my father’s store for shoes
Ski Yale wrote in Latin commodeus calcenmenta
comfortable shoes always made my father laugh.
I have never been to a podiatrist
but if I go I’ll go to
Dr. Matthew Barkoff 250 West 90th Street
on his website he explains
his father and his uncle owned
an auto repair shop on Jerome Avenue
with this slogan:
You Bend It We Mend It.
I kept the same slogan for feet
says Dr. Barkoff .
Inspires me to make a book about My Latin Teacher. He always called me by my last name although it came from Ellis Island.