Selected Poetry of Okot p'Bitek

my Husband’s Tongue is Bitter

Whose tongue is bitter to whom? By my Husband’s Tongue is Bitter

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The speaker’s husband (Ocol) is egotistical. The speaker confirms, “My husband abuses me together with my parents:/He says terrible things about my mother/And I am so ashamed!” The husband’s superciliousness prompts him to affront the people that he ought to be venerating. He is blinded by the self-absorption credited to the dogma of modernism. He holds that he is superior; thus, he can disgrace them anyhow.