<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421915" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Housewife's Lament</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've had enough of the kitchen sink<br>So I think I'll pour myself a drink, <br>The hoovering has all been done, <br>Oh a housewife's life is full of fun! <br>The vodka helps me pass the day<br>And drives my empty blues away, <br>What would my husband really think<br>If he knew that I was on the brink<br>Of a nervous breakdown like my friend, <br>The neighbour who 'went round the bend'? <br>Can you imagine what he'd do<br>When all his mates and colleagues knew<br>His wife was in the loony-bin, <br>Oh what a terrible social sin! ! <br>It wouldn't be long before divorce<br>(MY fault indeed, not HIS, of course!) <br>But then, at last, I would be free<br>And escape this bourgeois tyranny, <br>I'd get a job and buy a flat<br>And say goodbye to all of that! <br>And I would be so very happy<br>Never to change some baby's nappy, <br>Never to feel I was second rate, <br>Heavens above, it would be great! ! <br>Well you have listened to my tale, <br>One housewife's long and bitter wail, <br>So come and join me for some tea, <br>Some valium and sympathy! !</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Thorkild+Ellison">John Thorkild Ellison</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421915" data-title="A Housewife's Lament de John Thorkild Ellison" data-description="I've had enough of the kitchen sink So I think I'll pour myself a drink, The hoovering has all been done, Oh a housewife's life is full of fun! The vodka helps me pass the day And drives my empty blues away, What would my husband really think ..."></div> </div> </div>

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