Bedroom Boycott

In the mid of last week, a group of Kenyan women leaders from the civil society, G10 urged womenfolk to abstain from sex with their husbands for seven days to force Kenyan leaders act in a sensible manner!
A Kenyan young poet-Larry Liza illustrates to us how the boycott was!

BEDROOM BOYCOTT;
A Larry Liza poem

The women’s banner screamed
‘No Reforms, No Sex’
The men’s banner squealed
‘No Sex, No Reforms’

It was a people besieged,
Bottom rock leadership

The men growled,
Their thunders were wild
Like a stone age train upping the hill

‘We moil and toil,’ they roared
‘Yet you soil our loins’

Some women whimpered not
They were on a high
Like an African king in a desert
Going Brrrr…… with Coke

Is passion fashion, one way?

Some men coiled their tails
Swallowing hard, deprived in thirst
Like ‘ugali’ cornmeal without stew
Eyes begging, telling in silence
Like a child in need at the feet of mama

Lest they were denied connectivity
To the password to passion’s package

Others threatened Coin Angle Street
To slither in the looming darkness
‘Insert coin to continue’

For many households though
It had been business as usual…

©Larry Liza. Petals of Poetry. 2009.
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