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Classic and Contemporary Poetry


SIMPLE ENGLISH by RAY CLARKE ROSE

First Line: OFTTIMES WHEN I PUT ON MY GLOVES
Last Line: ALL RIGHT IF I AM DEFT.
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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