Cosmopolitan Magazine!

Cosmopolitan Magazine!
The bible of my youth
How to be a ‘modern girl’
In this brave new modern world

Pages of ‘recipes’ for how to live my life
How to be a bright young thing
And for later,
How it would be when I became a wife

Because you see
According to ‘Cosmo’
It wasn’t going to be
Just how it had always been
For generations of women from the North

It promised a new dawn
Where men would be
Sensitive to emotions
Active in childcare
Attentive around the home

They wouldn’t just come in
Flop in front of the TV
Expecting everything to be done
‘Cosmo’ promised me a modern kind of man

Believing it (every word)
To be true
I proudly showed my Nan
And declared!

Nan!  This is what husbands are going to be like
When I have one!
Nan just sighed
Shook her head and said
“Not round here they’re not!”