by Roy Blokker

Created on: June 01, 2010

            I’m vain about my hands.

            You couldn’t tell it

            from the cat scratches

            and paper cuts.

            It’s how I hold my pen.

            Firm in right hand, left out

            for balance, Star Trek mug filled hot.

            (I could write left-handed

            but nobody could read me

            and what’s the point of that?

            If I’d wanted to be unread

            I’d become a cryptographer.)

            I use both hands on the keyboard,

            hunt and peck, peck, peck.

            I’m vain about my hands,

            they’re how I reach out to you.

                       

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