This one was recently published as text in Illya’s Honey in Dallas, TX, USA. Thanks to my old mate Len Mosley for this original guitar piece. Len plays all the instruments on the track (and sings), all recorded live on analogue equipment. Like Jimi, Len is left-handed…

 

My left hand

 

 

 

sits on the page

 

resting its finger tips

 

silently crouching

 

watching

 

 

 

watching what

 

the right hand writes

 

 

 

writes rarely, clumsily

 

itself

 

 

 

itself subservient

 

to the dominant

 

right

 

 

 

always sinister

 

never dextrous

 

 

 

a lifetime as the

 

less-gifted brother

 

resentful

 

 

 

insecure less-fêted

 

self esteem deflated

 

 

 

silent

 

it squats

 

there

 

 

 

plotting its

 

revenge

 

 

© rob walker, 2012

First published in the biannual journal  Illya’s Honey,

Dallas Poets Community

Vol 18, No. 2 ISSN 1527-7798

(Spring/ Summer 2012)