Tag: women

• Letter From The Villageress🧖

  Look at something
  When you point a finger at someone
  Three turn to look at you
  I came to the big town
  I knew that things would get better
  But you were right
  I am a village person woman
  Amn’t I ?

  When hunger started to eat me
  People came to my aid
  They cut me some drinks
  And they asked for debt payment
  Yes I am a villageress
  Amn’t I ?

  I couldn’t come home with empty hands
  So i joined those who sell MTN chips
  We sold almost the same thing
  Just that i sold mine when they were about to go home
  That is when market is sweet.
  Today i grind ponce and wear hills in the evenings
  They call me srayqueen. You are not my class
  Did you say I’m a villageress?
  Ah is my money dirty?

  _ Winniefred Frederica Gbemuotor

  26th Aug 2022

  africa, social vices, village, women

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• Same Old

  In the past world
  They used to open the door to their cab
  A kiss on their dorsal
  A bow welcomed with kind courtesy
  Even kisses were reserved for the third date

  In exchange, they were refused the ballot
  Sent off to bed for a beauty sleep
  Sold off by invisible damsels
  Who had been long replaced by new juice
  They were kept from school and locked in scullery

  This day they say they are equal
  That they are on the same team
  That modern people gallantly accept the lack of self control
  Of equals who prefer to be equal at the top
  That you should be content to be the home
  And not the vacation house

  They call each other
  On beds of butt-crackin farts
  To share a love language
  They themselves struggle to understand
  Of witless damsels who’s only aim is to claw their way into generational wealth 
  Like ants who walk on colleagues’ dead bodies as far as sugar is in sight.

  _ Winniefred F Gbemuotor

  14th Aug 2022

  equality, greed, men, people, women, world

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