A Black Girl, Half-Schooled & Half-Educated, Thinks She Herself Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

A black girl,
Half-educated and half-schooled,
She thinks herself
No less than
A magistrate,
A second class not,
But first class magistrate.

Her father was not,
But she thinks herself
A magistrate
As she is the single one
Educated and schooled
In her family.

Cooks she not food,
Nor helps her mother,
Nor does she any household work,
But poses she as a teacher,
A film heroine,
A drama girl, a theatre artiste.

The black girl
Who after seeing light for the first time
Thinks she herself no less
Than a film heroine,
A cine star,
A beautician,
A fashion designer.

Wicked from her within,
She is not good,
But bad at heart,
That black and ugly girl,
Half-educated and half-schooled,
An officer for her foolish parents.