WOMEN Poem by Ivan Slamnig

Women are creatures from Venus, except that we live together.
In order to become acquainted with them, we search them in and out.
There are some things they seem to know better,
some things that we don't really care to think about.
After we had fingered them for no other reason than to make a test,
we run off claiming we had already got to know their best.

They stay. All efforts to take everything from them seem to be in vain.
That's what really makes us cross, and so we try again.

Time passes but they are still alien and bizarre.
Maybe they'll go back to that planet, very far.