Hubby playing chess

My hubby is playing chess

together with a hundred men

wiping the sweat

off their brow.

Poised for the conquest

white plucks another piece

off the board.

Here not even a flash

of my three bare breasts

would arouse

a flicker of interest.

Holding my pint

I join the women,

who also watched their chessmen -

briefly, that is.

Women failing to understand men:

it s so run of the mill

for us, chummy at the bar

Vertaling: Christine Jefferis en Marius Jaspers