Poem
Ramy Ditzanny
LEGGING BEHIND
A stork has one leg.A ladder, two.
A tripod has tri pods.
A fly, says Aristotle, four.
A stud bull, five.
A dung beetle, six.
A millepede stampedes over millepede
without missing a pede!
And I, a leg and a half.
A wooden calf.
A waking stick with an ivory knob
finely carved.
Some girls up the street
say my limp is chic.
I\'m grateful, since
I\'m vain about my appearance.
Not to mention my degree:
I\'m an electronics engineer.
Nevertheless, I confess
despite being in my prime.
my efforts sublime,
robust thighs, stick a beauty.
it gets harder and harder
to overtake the cuties
© Translation: 1984, the author, with Barbara Goldberg
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למרבה הצער
© 1984, Ramy Ditzanny
From: Poems from the Ward of the Crippled in Spirit
Publisher: Domino, Jerusalem, Israel
From: Poems from the Ward of the Crippled in Spirit
Publisher: Domino, Jerusalem, Israel
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LEGGING BEHIND
A stork has one leg.A ladder, two.
A tripod has tri pods.
A fly, says Aristotle, four.
A stud bull, five.
A dung beetle, six.
A millepede stampedes over millepede
without missing a pede!
And I, a leg and a half.
A wooden calf.
A waking stick with an ivory knob
finely carved.
Some girls up the street
say my limp is chic.
I\'m grateful, since
I\'m vain about my appearance.
Not to mention my degree:
I\'m an electronics engineer.
Nevertheless, I confess
despite being in my prime.
my efforts sublime,
robust thighs, stick a beauty.
it gets harder and harder
to overtake the cuties
© 1984, the author, with Barbara Goldberg
From: Poems from the Ward of the Crippled in Spirit
From: Poems from the Ward of the Crippled in Spirit
LEGGING BEHIND
A stork has one leg.A ladder, two.
A tripod has tri pods.
A fly, says Aristotle, four.
A stud bull, five.
A dung beetle, six.
A millepede stampedes over millepede
without missing a pede!
And I, a leg and a half.
A wooden calf.
A waking stick with an ivory knob
finely carved.
Some girls up the street
say my limp is chic.
I\'m grateful, since
I\'m vain about my appearance.
Not to mention my degree:
I\'m an electronics engineer.
Nevertheless, I confess
despite being in my prime.
my efforts sublime,
robust thighs, stick a beauty.
it gets harder and harder
to overtake the cuties
© 1984, the author, with Barbara Goldberg
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