Sheila
Joan works in a pub serving people drinks.
She has a good relationship with John,
Her boss. Even their names sound similar.
There is something about John, so manly,
He does so well with the regulars too.
He sometimes gives the regulars free rounds.
Joan also sometimes gives drinkers free rounds,
They both can be generous with their drinks.
One day, John's been missing from the pub too
Long. Joan has no idea. Where has John
Gone? The pub's in need of someone manly.
Soon a lady walks in who's similar
To John. Why does she look so similar
To him? 'I'll get all the staff some free rounds,'
She says. But this lady is quite manly,
'Call me Sheila,' she says. She gets the drinks.
Joan suddenly realises she's John!
'What's this transformation? A lady too?'
John makes clear Joan shall call him Sheila too.
Joan knows Sheila is not so similar
To the boss she thought she knew. She's not John.
Sheila's hands tremble as she gets the rounds.
In Joan's eyes, the way she handles the drinks,
Still makes Sheila appear very manly.
But Sheila is still so very manly,
When Joan calls her, she can't forget John too.
Yet every time Sheila handles those drinks,
Sheila and John are someone similar.
She can't get over him calling those rounds.
She can't see Sheila, she only knew John.
Joan is always very surprised that John
Feels this way about himself. So manly
Was he, she thought. As Sheila calls the rounds,
The staff are surprised about Sheila too.
Yet she always thought it was similar,
The way he knew her, how he issued drinks.
John is Sheila, Joan figures, as she drinks.
The two are compatibly similar.