The Village Kiss

A village man, eager to impress his lover with a foreign kiss, learns the hard way that not all cultures or individuals react the same way to borrowed traditions.

A copy cat
Invited his cat
To our village bar
To teach her the secret
Of how to kiss
The barbaric cat
Came without any reluctance
Her proud head
Enlarged with too many petulance
She was going to learn
The white man's blight
With any amount of ride
And expensive flight

The copy cat
Cautioned this cat
To part her lips aside
To an extended length
And when he poked his
tongue into it
They stuck tight
In a comparative kiss

Minutes later something shrilled a hiss
And the two lips parted with no bliss
The barbaric cat had a bloody meat
in her mouth
And the copy cat's tongue
Was no where to be found!

© Godwin Isiwu

Author's Note

A village man takes his village girl to a village joint for a romantic lunch. Possibly he had learned some new stuff from a movie or the city, and wanted to show his myopic girl. The excited couple sits and the man attempts to kiss her the way he had learnt: he tells her to open her mouth, and then he places his tongue in it. This is to imitate what he had seen somewhere, but the puzzled girl innocently bites off his tongue. One lesson this poem teaches is we should never try to copy everything we see nor behave in the same manner towards everyone.