I am always attracted to “utilized things”.
For example
the boots in the picture.
The long storm has gone away
and I saw these boots hanging to dry
on the clear sunny day after.
hanging to dry.

These boots with an unknown owner
were under the eaves of the probably owner’s house
sitting there by themselves sun bathing as if they were
recuperating from yesterday’s storm which was their big job.

There is one spot where maybe a hole wore through
repaired cleanly with a bicycle patch kit
that looked so proud to me.
The boots were used as a “thing” had no problem with it,
almost seeming justified, while the owner,
definitely fond of them, used this “thing” as a tool;
it almost seemed to show
how the relationship with the “thing”
was not something cozy.
I felt that the “person” using and the “thing” used,
both had an independent role without favoritism
leading to this working relationship.

That is why I began to think that to “utilize” might be
not for the person to use the thing
and the thing not using the person.
The relationship of both is not too close,
yet not too far
for it to work out.