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In the old photograph
there's a boy
with a blackboard
writing upside down.

But it's not a trick
of turning the board upside or
some illusion,
because the brain turns all
our images right-side up,
but sometimes brains get
broken
in infancy
or in the place before that,
and so this boy's pictures
came out upside down.
His eyes were
in the pure state
without mirror-magic.

Everything was not the
way everyone wanted it to be,
but the small boy with glasses
didn't mind much,
for he saw as he did
and wrote and read
and went to school.