Zywa Meagrebeast

The poet dreams romantic
of unearthly beautiful women
and he mocks the ordinary people

He's bluffing he will reveal
the women's secret
their fondest heart's desire

In the end he promises
loyalty to an old woman
whose words laugh at him

Women want to be the boss
of their husband and their lover
not allow them a life of their own


like in the land of Meagrebeast
where this truth is lied
by women who are jealous

and who defend their husbands
so they don't have to go to bed
with their wrong

Poem 4514
Amsterdam, 2022-06-06

Clerk's Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The tale closes with a song about Griselda, in which Chaucer refers to Meagre cow
Meagrebeast: Chichevache ("Meagre cow"), the name which Geoffrey Chaucer gave to Chichifache ("Uglyface"), the werewolf, which, according to a French legend, only fed itself with obedient wives and was therefore very skinny
And the panther-bull Bicorn ("Two-horn") devours kind husbands, so he is plump and stuffed

Collection: Frames 
Keyword: Love: flawed/doubt/powerless 
Tribute to: Chaucer, Geoffrey 
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