I've had enough of the kitchen sink <br />So I think I'll pour myself a drink, <br />The hoovering has all been done, <br />Oh a housewife's life is full of fun! <br />The vodka helps me pass the day <br />And drives my empty blues away, <br />What would my husband really think <br />If he knew that I was on the brink <br />Of a nervous breakdown like my friend, <br />The neighbour who 'went round the bend'? <br />Can you imagine what he'd do <br />When all his mates and colleagues knew <br />His wife was in the loony-bin, <br />Oh what a terrible social sin! ! <br />It wouldn't be long before divorce <br />(MY fault indeed, not HIS, of course!) <br />But then, at last, I would be free <br />And escape this bourgeois tyranny, <br />I'd get a job and buy a flat <br />And say goodbye to all of that! <br />And I would be so very happy <br />Never to change some baby's nappy, <br />Never to feel I was second rate, <br />Heavens above, it would be great! ! <br />Well you have listened to my tale, <br />One housewife's long and bitter wail, <br />So come and join me for some tea, <br />Some valium and sympathy! !<br /><br />John Thorkild Ellison<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-housewife-s-lament/
