Woke, a brand new bloke

World has gotten far too awake, Fancy gender issues to rake. Sex, a matter of choice, One follows inner voice, As suits self choice, one bakes one’s cake. A non-binary brick Has broken old rubric— One male-female that goes to make, And woke, a brand new bloke, Out, old order to choke, Suffers deep slumber and can’t wake. _____________________________________ Happenings |11.04.2024| Limerick, humour Poet’s note: J K Rowling of Harry Potter faces a prospect of arrest in Scotland for having said: Many a transgender actually is man under the dress. But if Western World is so 'woke' as to suffer from chronic insomnia, India seems its Polar opposite, comparable to say Rip Van Winkle who slept for twenty years, or Kumbhakarna of Ramayana who used to sleep six months in a year. The last line of this ditty alludes to this fact.