ARGUMENTATIVE

The unwritten law states that a woman

Has the last word in any argument.

Anything a man may say after that

Is the beginning of a new argument

FUTURE

Until she gets a husband

A woman worries about her future life

But a man never worries about the future

Until he gets a wife

THE YOUTH OF TODAY

 

Whether Right or wrong

Or for good or bad

They all do it, Girl and boy

Or laddette and lad

Lads swear like troupers

Loud and loutish

Girls swear like fishwives

Drinking to excess

So lacking in respect

For themselves and for others

Morals like alley cats

That would shame their mothers

KISS OF DEATH

 

A man who, for twenty years

Hasn’t kissed his wife

Seeing another kiss her

Is moved to take that man’s life

A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

 

The despot Robert Mugabe

The thorn in Africa’s side

Is not what the world envisaged

At the end of the apartheid

 

What hope then for the continent

When such men prosper

Ruling with a fist of iron

Colder still than the white oppressor

 

Yet there will always be hope

Even if the good number but a few

When God puts upon the earth

A man like Desmond Tutu

A WORD OF WARNING

 

A word of warning, a word to the wise

Don’t be one of that ilk of women

Who get all excited about nothing

Because you’ll end up marrying them  

I FORGET TO EAT

 

There was a rather vacuous

Skinny girl who irritated me

“Sometimes I forget to eat”

The silly girl said to me

Now I’ve forgotten things

Where I parked the car

My mother's maiden name

Keys for the house and the car

And once even where I lived

But I’ve never forgotten to eat

I’ve been too busy or too tired

But not so stupid I forgot to eat