The Male Chauvinist Parrot Poem by Thomas Vaughan Jones

Percy the Parrot, so pompous and proud,
perched on his perch and he proclaimed aloud,
“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again,
women will never be equal to men.”

He gazed in his mirror and he was entranced.
He preened and he postured, and preached as he pranced,
“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again
women will never be equal to men”

Until one fine day, he awoke from his rest
to find a large egg snuggled close to his breast;
at which time poor Percy grew quite melancholy.
He wasn’t a Percy at all, but a Polly!

No more would such crudities come from her beak.
She never could find any spare time to speak,
no more would she mutter in masculine rage.

For she was too busy, just cleaning her cage!