Menopause

MENOPAUSE

( POEMS)

Azeez Akinwumi SESAN FOREWORD
A gloss over a poetry collection titled Menopause by Azeez Akinwumi Sesan could suggest “transvestism”; but a closer study reveals the transsexual trend of feminism as a literary and political movement. The passion with which the poet handles the gender issues raised seems more obsessing than that of many female writers. The discourse on the excruciating experience of the female gender in a chauvinistic based culture like ours is animating. So also is the juxtaposition of the sexes in terms of quality contributions to societal building on the one hand and the resilience of the womenfolk, in spite of all odds on the other. The ironic twist in the lopsided arrangement in …show more content…
Red Light District
I heard you call me a prostitute
Then what are you
When you left your wife to meet me?
You shirk your responsibilities
To satisfy your urge
Here, with me.
Do you think I don't know The secret of how
You slept with your sister
When you could not control
Your burning urge
And you said it was devil's work
Or do you think it is hidden
That your wife is still nursing
The pains of how you raped her sister?
Then, what liberty do you have
To call me a prostitute?
Wait!
Don't go yet
Let me give you more
Of what you asked for
Are you not the same
That flirt around with your housemaid?
What a shameful act!
Even your secretary is not spared
I pity your wife that gives you
Her body with no fee And thank you
Here,
Red Light District
You pay for our body And say thank you.
To unburden your burning urge
Pay into my corporate account
And bring the teller
For your receipt.

Magun
My husband is a flirt
I need to place a Magun on him
Abomination!
They said,
"Magun is only placed
On a