The Man with No Left Side

A Poem

Illustration created by Midjourney

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The Man with No Left Side

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He could not see his left-hand side.
His maps did not show west.
He told the doc, “It’s just not there.”
The doctor sighed, depressed. 

“Then how did you just flick that wrist?—
That hand is not your right.”
He sensed the doc was testing him,
and fixin’ for a fight. 

“If I told you that all pigs flew,
and pointed to the sky,
and said, ‘That stork is truly pork.’
Would that not be a lie?” 

“Of course it would!”—“Then, well and good.
I’ve proved my point, you see?
I haven’t a left hand, but as
for right hands, I have three.”

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