Other Poem 2: Rubina

A.M.M.A (After Marriage Micro Aggressions)

You haven’t changed your name?
Is Princess Consuella Bananahammock too lame?

Oh Lord, he gets up before you do?
Yup, and he makes the chai too.

It’s important that you learn his culture.
You know Parsis feed their dead to a vulture?  

When he earns so much, why do you work?
Can Scotty beam you up like Captain Kirk?

Why don’t you just help him with his firm?
Oops! My law degree was just eaten by a worm.

How come he’s losing so much weight?
I hide all the snacks in my bed, after eight.

Why don’t you wear a chain and bangles?
When we have sex, I hate the jangles.

How can you talk about such things?
I thought marriage all about the lings?

When will I become a (insert random relative term)?
Dotted condoms just gives me squirms, not sperm.

How could such a nice boy marry such a shrew?
Don’t you know? It’s feminist voodoo.

Comments

  1. Soumya DuggalApril 23, 2019 at 11:45 AM

    Oh my! I enjoyed reading this poem so much. Haha.

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  2. DevyaniApril 27, 2019 at 3:31 AM

    Wow! it captures all the day to day conversations happening in a marriage in an Indian society.

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  3. Jasmine YadavApril 27, 2019 at 8:26 AM

    Loved this one! Right from the title to the last line. Choosing to answer absurd questions with absurdity and straightforward-ness! Absolutely bad-ass! :) \m/

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