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DROLL DAY

DROLL DAY   Are there jobs that only women do?

Some men on errand boast of what they can do

Do not laugh at what I have to say How would you describe a normal day?

So let us divide the chores in the household

To see what portion you may claim to hold Who does the cleaning and sweeping? Who does the cooking and washing?

Lest, on menial things, the master’s time is wasted

For such, the children’s usefulness is tested

Is it the woman who runs the house? While the man claims to own the house Is it the man who deceives the woman?

Or the woman, in pretension, fools the man

Who buys the food and pay the bills? Household chores, like roadmap on the hills Tasked the woman to work and walk

While the man hangs around in past time talk

Pretending to read or with friends, playing games

Lazy old fool, I do not want to call you names.

— t. reflexion, Jul 28, 2008

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Country/Region: NGA

Favorite Poets: Inspired by an article in an old manuscript , It reads:, AXIOMS OF PERFECTION, In the physical order – In the realization of the dream of beauty, In the moral order – In the realization of the dream of love, In the intellectual order – In the realization of dream of poetry, In the spiritual order – In the realization of the dream of the mystics

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rahbar

17 years 10 months ago

Borderline.

Hello T...your poem definitely is standing on the dividing line...it is very difficult to know which side you are....very good write indeed. Rahbar.
Rett

Rett

17 years 10 months ago

Well done

I can give you several platitudes on that, but the two I live by are...1. marriage is a partnership, not I or you. and 2. the MOST important one..If mama isn't happy, NO ONE IS! *LOL* Great write sir. 5/5 from me. Rett: "This way to the Great Egress" P.T. Barnum