SPOUSAL LIES: award winner

SPOUSAL LIES


Do you love me? Yes I do.
[Though I would rather kill you.]

Am I sexy? You are great.
[You are just a lousy mate].

Am I fat? No darling, not.
[You are just a bulging pot].

Do you like my red gown new?
Great. [ Though uglier are few].

Do I sing well? Oh! So sweet.
[In fact, you don’t sing, you bleat].

How is my cooking? Superb.
[It’s a sentence without verb].

The above and much, much more
Are the lies husbands endure.



* Written in aa, 7-7-format.

* * Awarded third prize in "Invalid Item" , A Broken Heart Poetry Contest, 4th round, December 2007

* Initially written as entry no. 376212 in the book MISCELLANEA "MISCELLANEA" . Posted as an independent item on 17 December 2007.


M C Gupta
29 Sept. 2005