Girls

Girls smell, .. they're funny, what's that about?
They don't play games, just scream and shout!
Kinda weird .. be nurses and moms.
Don't wanna shoot guns or blow up bombs!

Girls are strange .. sometimes imagine they're married,
with babies and pushchairs and thresholds a-carried

Girls are weird .. strange moods, what's that for?
They're sometimes exciting and sometimes a bore!
I can't work it out .. one time gorgeous hunk.
Then the very next week I'm the worlds biggest skunk!

Girls are just daft, crying at soppy TV soaps,
Watching made-up people mirror their button-holed hopes.

Girls are a pain … but what can one do?
They make you feel tall when they notice you!
And holding hands … wow, that can feel so cool.
Maybe it's not girls, maybe it's man's the fool!

Mark Broomhall
October 2003