Following in the Footsteps
of Genius
Janet Kuypers
8/13/19, written on and for
International Left Handers Day
I’ve been opening refrigerator doors
from the wrong side
I won’t know how many times
I mean, I’m used to using a mouse
to the right of a computer
with my right hand
and using right-handed scissors
with my right hand too
because us creative types
from Hendrix to Jon Stewart
have learned how to play
by the right-handed rules
and still be amazingly successful
in our own “right”
how many U.S. Presidents
have been left-handed
(including everyone from Reagan
to Clinton to Barrack Obama,
but they don’t share that,
because this is a right-handed
world, isn’t it?)
Other left-handed people?
Let’s try Leonardo Da Vinci,
Mark Twain, Mozart, Marie Curie,
from Aristotle to Alexander the Great,
even Joan of Arc, and Ben Franklin.
Nuns would physically punish
my left-handed family
for writing left-handed,
and I can only ask:
why punish the creative few
for following in the footsteps of genius?
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