Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SIMPLE ENGLISH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE


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First Line: Ofttimes when I put on my gloves
Last Line: All right if I am deft.
Variant Title(s): Simple English; Tongue-twister
Subject(s): Gloves; Humor; Mittens; Muffs


Ofttimes when I put on my gloves,
I wonder if I'm sane,
For when I put the right one on
The right seems to remain
To be put on—that is, 't is left;
Yet if the left I don
The other one is left, and then
I have the right one on.
But still I have the left on right;
The right one, though, is left
To go right on the left right hand
All right if I am deft.





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