lefties

I don't remember who it was who introduced me to the idea of one-handed typing. (No, not that sort of one-handed typing!) If you know how to touch-type, you know that certain letters belong to the left hand and certain letters belong to the right hand. Maybe it was Andrei Codrescu on NPR who did a piece on this idea. Talking about which entire words could be done with left-handed letters or right-handed letters. One of the jokes I remember from the commentary is that "Jimmy" is on the right while "Carter" is on the left, and that was the problem with the president himself. (Touch-type those names and you'll get the point.) Codrescu, if it was him, did this bit back in the 1980s. Some things stick with me.

So I tried to see exactly how politically leftist a "poem" I could manage with all left-handed words. Here's what I came up with:

after we saw free trade a rat race was vast
                                                               

fat cats
bearded bastards
                                                               

     wages were bad
we rads scarred scabs

   swabbed sweat
 saved drab dresses

bartered rags
                                                               

a secret race
ate feasts
   as we starved
                                                               

far freer were we
aware as we were
                                                               

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