Mrs. Q. Poem by Tony Adah

Mrs. Q is an average age woman
Meticulous, fierce and quarelsome
Must have been a tomboy
At one stage in her early metamorphosis
She moves with power
Which is what her mouth also speaks
And she is the husband
Of the household
Where the quiet bashful husband
Doubles as a servant and a wife.

And this reversal of roles
Doesn't made make her
The bread winner of the home
Yet everybody in the house
Was a toy only to be seen.

The kitchen
Was her living room
Where she reeled out dishes
And ate and ate and
Looked like a fat pig
Unable to grunt breathed
Like an old locomotive.

Her head just rested
On her shoulders
And her rotund cheeks
Found the same place to rest
Mrs. Q's diameter
Was equal to her height
She was a woman man!