Two flies on a radiator

 

Two flies on a radiator 

Bill & Ben

Tom & Jerry

Mutt & Jeff

Ben & Jerry

I’m not in the business of sexing flies

So they could be female

I was brought up in the super soar away seventies & enlightened eighties

and went to a single sex school (not girls)

 I do have a sexist mindset, no matter how much I protest.

It just leaks out.

There are no excuses.

 I am not an Alpha male, a hunter gatherer,

I think my sexism comes from being an inadequate male.

If men just admitted to feeling not up to the idealised

 instead of projecting on to women,

 that might cut down on the mansplaining

which is just us explaining to you our inadequacies in code.

I wonder if the two flies are aware that I have used their appearance to write a

kind of poem about sexism and inadequate men. (Me)

Perhaps they are re-incarnated English Teachers who if they knew,

would go to great lengths to explain that this was not a poem.

“Just Words Boy”

I get my gold plated fly swat from ‘the cwtch dan star’ 

and stand facing them ‘full scwar.’

If I kill them will it stop me being sexist?