Forced Ambidexterity

I'm a student of

compulsory ambidexterity

Training myself to

push pencils

with one hand

and push myself

deeper into the floor

with the other

To pick at old wounds

while

laying the foundations

for new ones

Or

wave goodbye and hello

at the

same time

While one hand

struggles to throw my notebook

into the lake

the other shoves it eagerly

into my chest cavity

I end up merely

a water-logged body

suspended in a collage

of soggy paper