Message of Encouragement for All the Other Left-Handed People in the World |
by Dr. Richard Luftig


Scientists have
deduced
that we use
most
the side
of the brain
opposite
our handedness.



If this is
the case
then
am I
of those
few lucky
ones
yet in my right
mind?


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Dr. Richard Luftig is a recipient of the Cincinnati Post-Corbett Foundation Award for Literature and a semi finalist for the Emily Dickinson Society Award.  His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals in the United State, internationally in Japan, Canada, Australia, Europe, Thailand, Hong Kong and India and have been translated into Japanese, Polish, German and Finnish. One of his published poems was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Poetry Prize.