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 </div><p></p>Yea, you’re right and I’m wrong.<br>
What do I know about a busy day?<br>
I’m but a ‘house’ wife, I stay put where I belong.<br>
After a day long, I’ve nothing to complain anyway.
<p>You said, at the sixth hour, you run along.<br>
That’s right, except that the house victim is earlier up an hour or two<br>
She has to dutifully dote the dome<br>
Ensuring that chores and breakfast are done.</p>
<p>Yea, you’re right; those aren’t anything!<br>
If they are, they’re just thin!<br>
O yea, ‘jobless’ wife indeed!<br>
But who gets Junior and Ojone set for school?<br>
Who prepares them under adoringly annoying attitudes of a scoundrel age?<br>
These surely, aren’t many things?</p>
<p>‘House wife’ dares not whimper, who would hear a thing?<br>
Done at home, the ‘dummy’ mum;<br>
No, the wobbling beetle gets the kids to school,<br>
Runs along with them in relays she never win.</p>
<p>She returns and continues the house routine;<br>
Does laundry and cleaning business like a busy bee.<br>
But hers is unquoted in any stock market buzz.<br>
Hence, she’s a ‘jobless’ wife; she does nothing!</p>
<p>I’m a no complainer; I get it.<br>
Do you know, I enjoy the stroll out to shop at the Down Mile?<br>
Tired or not, the leverage is enticing.<br>
I bask under envious stares and return same with pampering shining smiles.<br>
And back at home,<br>
Better than any best wild chef, I take care of dinner things.</p>
<p>But you, the ‘working’ husband;<br>
You return home with a weary look and a heavy chin;<br>
Dragging yourself about like a battered band.<br>
You appearance says everything.<br>
And these things, these things excuse you<br>
For a devoted attention too.<br>
But you’re my baby, my boo<br>
So, I tenderly tend to your wounds.</p>
<p>But who’s complaining?<br>
Oh yea, I’m but a ‘jobless’ wife!<br>
I’m wrong and you’re always right!<br>
I’m not whining, just saying,<br>
You don’t have to whirr;<br>
Except we’re on the same page in this tie.</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_21723" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-21723" style="width: 1830px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://poetry.wrr.ng/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/THE-JOBLESS-HOUSEWIFE-STORY-by-Dominic-Ayegba-Okoliko.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-21723" src="http://poetry.wrr.ng/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/THE-JOBLESS-HOUSEWIFE-STORY-by-Dominic-Ayegba-Okoliko.jpg" alt="THE 'JOBLESS' HOUSEWIFE STORY by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko" width="1830" height="1000" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-21723" class="wp-caption-text">THE ‘JOBLESS’ HOUSEWIFE STORY by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko</figcaption></figure></p>
 
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