The gloves are off

Discarded clothes always get me thinking. These gloves look industrial and fairly new and were languishing at the foot of a wall outside a church. Maybe they are protective issue used by exorcists when grappling with demons.

I have seen many clothes lying in roads and on pavements and even in hedges and trees down the years. Underwear on a dual carriageway was my favourite, as if someone had got over-excited and thrown their pants out of the window in a fit of passion. Shoes are always baffling - how do you get home without them? But maybe none of them are worn, and in fact may be they are part of some great artistic project or hidden camera project. "Subject 131 stared at the bra in the tree for several minutes before moving on" - that kind of thing. Or maybe they have just fallen through gaps in time or doorways between dimensions. That would explain where all my socks disappear to. They are lying on a road in a parallel universe ...