Sunday Poem: “Dress Code”

 

A young woman

forced to walk to work

after a driver

kicked her off the bus.

 

Her shirt was too revealing,

showing midriff.

 

Meanwhile, the prime minster

is spotted shirtless again.

 

In public.

 

Admired, midriff and all.

 

 

(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)

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