Manuela Cardiga - Guilty Pleasures and Culinary Treasures

MERCANTILE TRADING
NUBILE NUBIANS ON THE NILE,
NAMELY THE ELEPHANTINE

Addition,
Division,
A break
With Tradition:

1 adds up
To nought,
This kind of love
I never sought.

2 adds up
To less
Than hoped four
(a mathematical
dreadnought)

Though Prime
And Even both,
Total value:
Less than a groat.

3 divides
Me from me:
Takes the mind
Lets the woman
Be.

Sums and Summaries!
Girls, hie thee
To Nunneries,
If these are
The numbers?
Fakers and shirkers
And fumblers?

Addition,
Division,
A break
With Tradition…

I will send them all
Scurrying
Harum-Scarum!
Ladies I’m getting
Myself a Harem!


MC