A Poem for the Weekend Mini Challenge

Maladroit

Maladroit, a fairly big word

for messed up or being clumsy

or the like--you can look it up

Maladroit, a word barely in

my working vocabulary

But it fits my direction goes

You see I hardly know left, right

My sister's that way too she says

that comes with "half dyslexia"

My problem first came to light when

I was marching in the Army

Left right left right your right left right ...

Those starts and turns were bad for me

I'd often hear, "Soldier put a

rock in your right hand." Not much help

And when I'm driving please don't say

"Turn left here," because we'll be through

the intersection way before

I think it out. Say "North or south."

When driving in France harder still

Please dont say to me "gauche et droite."

So now you can know why I wear

my watch on my right wrist. A 'Clunce'

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Kim Russel in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/09/weekend-mini-challenge-maladroit.html?m=1

 - The word, "Clunce".  I made it up,
"a hybrid wird produced when 'dunce' is mated with 'klutz'."
I first used it in another of my blogs, "Ask Dr. Jim (blog)", https://jimmiehov8.blogspot.com/2018/05/wife-knows-she-was-right-husband-thinks.html?m=1