I just finished reading a book called Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps. I found it to be very funny and very enlightening. If you've ever wondered why men and women are so different this little book not only gives plausible answers as to why, it even gives common sense advice about how to deal with our differences. Written by a husband and wife team, Barbara and Allan Pease, they have managed to work together, live together, and raise four children. They claim to still like each other so they must be doing something right. It would seem that I was channeling some of their ideas long before I read their book. Three and a half years ago I wrote the following poem and since it suits today's subject matter I thought I should post it.
Y Chromosome Deficiency
We're mostly the same
Anatomy wise
There are minor variations
Involving length and breadth and size
And our coloring runs the rainbow
In our skin and hair and eyes
Underneath all that we're human
The casual observer would surmise
But when it comes to men and women
The gulf between us is no surprise
We speak in different languages
Eavesdropping verifies
Our brains are steeped in hormonal cocktails
To varied behaviors this gives rise
Can we appreciate our separate completeness?
Realizing this edifies
Like it or not we need each other
History exemplifies
So for the sake of peacemaking
For these last two lines I apologize
But am I merely y-chromosome deficient?
Or are your balls ovaries in disguise?
1 comment:
Don't apologize for the last two lines. That's my favorite part.
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