Shoelaces, by Andrew Kaufman
One morning the Foreboding Man was tying his shoes. The lace in his right shoe broke. He put on his other pair of dark shoes and the lace in the left shoe broke. He changed into his light suit but as he tightened the lace on his left brown shoe, it broke. He looked at the lace in his hand. He looked at the laces on the floor. "I have to leave you," he said to his wife, but she was already gone.
