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?
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