Break-Out

BREAK-OUT

Follow/lead Usual/rare

Although, to me, it's a mystery,

Throughout recorded history

Males have always taken the lead!

Yes! It's very strange indeed!

Women have had to follow behind!

Yet it's been proved the female mind

Is quite as clever as the male.

Why, in school, girls rarely fail!

Yet it's usual for men to feel

That only 'men's work' is really real!

A C.E.O. in female form

Is very rare among the swarm

Of male executives and bosses.

Women merely count their losses.

It all comes down to the male physique;

Men consider women weak

Because their bodies are designed

To produce the young of human-kind.

This makes them vulnerable I fear;

And causes macho men to sneer.

But, in the future, when technology

Takes the place of our biology,

And babies are all test-tube made,

Then the women will make the grade.

Freed from bodily constrictions

They will burst from their restrictions,

Taking their places as the leaders,

And not the dominated breeders!

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BY ANY OTHER NAME!

Oh blog! Thou hast an ugly name,

For which I know thou art not to blame.

I know thou art Web Log in disguise,

But thy creators were unwise

To saddle thee with such a title

When attractive names are vital.

As a swear-word it's quite O.K.....

'Blog it!' is quite good to say.

But as a word to describe  delight,

It really, truly, isn't right!

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Can'st thou see that charming wench,

Not sitting at a desk or bench,

But on the beach, beside the sea,

Blogging with intensity?

I, too, have that charm and grace

When I'm transported to cyberspace!

I, too, have seas of aquamarine

Adding beauty to the scene.

I tap thy keys with fairy fingers

And not a trace of reality lingers.

Whereas I think of a muddy bog

When I hear that harsh word 'blog'!

Thy namer should deserve a flogging

For calling such an experience 'blogging'!

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