Tomboy

Skirt and blouse - rejecting tomboy Is never the cringing coy: Very early dumps every toy And her milky but effeminate soy, Cheerily ever for the boyish, Forswearing everything girlish… A sex-change operation hopeful And male-fun partaker in full: Never the allergic to drinking contests And exclusive-to-males protests: Not when she has got her throaty bellow And could say A Pure Rebel’s Hello! Cleary not a put-up ploy The mannerisms of a tomboy: She’s the come-back soldier from Troy: For a bodyguard, please her employ… Already has she donned a thug’s haircut… And can effortlessly tighten the loosest nut: From the lips of bra-avoiding tomboy Out tumbles piratical ‘Ahoy!’