I Shouldn’t Love The Half Of Me

I shouldn’t love the half of me,
the side that keeps me hindered,
the side that will always be fifteen,

the side that attempts to row across the sea
with giraffe heads protruding from where the oars should be
and leaves us circling, seemingly,

but if I replaced that side
with rightful rows of proper oarsman,
I really don’t know who I’d be.