RHYME Poem: WRONG WAY ROUND, by Howard Osborne

A two fingered V sign may pass the test
Even if it was not intended to confound
With the palm held away from the chest
As that choice is the safer, I’ll be bound
Signalling victory is certainly for the best
There’s not many of those to the pound
Yet if reversed and the meaning guessed
Offence is then taken, with angry sound
A sign at our Agincourt archers’ behest
To indicate more enemy can be downed
Even at a long distance, not like the rest
There are some things that I have found
And despite odd comments made in jest
May still be shown the wrong way round

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