The Author, Robinson Crusoe, and Men

A married man who fathered with his wife

Eight children wrote the widest-selling book^*

Besides the Bible.  In the view of life

Presented in the novel, women took

The tiniest of roles, existing more

As background stuff.  The novel is about

Those things that matter:  men.  The manly core

Is Robinson and Friday.  We can pout

If we are woke, but that’s the fact.  No girls

Or women clutter up the plot.  Two guys

Get on together needing nothing of sweet twirls

Of girlie things.  But was this very wise?

  The simple facts speak out the answer.  Sales

    And readership filled out the novel’s sails.

¹ The most translated book besides the Bible was Robinson Crusoe [Wikipedia]

~ Phillip Whidden

¹ The most translated book besides the Bible was Robinson Crusoe [Wikipedia]