For one who eats little pepper, I have known men hot- burning and spicy.
Femi taught me a woman’s skirt need not be long, only short enough to be interesting.
Emmanuel said to tour the world was to know Sola, Madeley, Fatima, Ngozi, Aniké.
And Ola showed me how a lady’s legs must part like the Red Sea.
But beneath their noise, my mother’s steady, single rhyme says:
For a boy to be a man, he must first learn to respect a woman.
IRENE
