When One Plus One Leaves One

When One Plus One Leaves One

(a Longerick)

written by: Ken Gosse

Near look-alikes, they were fraternal
(the same guy was jointly paternal,
and although he might spoof her
the twins weren’t a twofer)
with two older brothers
(the twins weren’t their druthers!)
who had two twin sisters,
so they had two misters
as siblings, but lo,
pretty soon they would know
they each had just one twin
although they both had been
in the womb with each other
and knew one another
since long before birth
when their mother’s great girth
had reached fifty-two inches,
a measure that clinches
she had more than one
deep inside, who’d begun
to prepare for arrival,
for new-world survival,
but doing the math
since their time in that bath
it had proved out of reach
to have two sisters each
instead of just one
who would share all their fun
since that nocturnal game went internal.

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Ken Gosse prefers writing short, rhymed verse with traditional meter usually filled with whimsy and humor. First published in First Literary Review–East in November 2016, since then in Pure Slush, Home Planet News Online, Spillwords, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and others. Raised in the Chicago suburbs, now retired, he and his wife have lived in Mesa, AZ, over twenty-five years with rescue cats and dogs underfoot.

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