Upscale Restaurant's resuscitated poetry night is usually interesting but on Tuesday night things got really exciting when little Ryan Benschop took to the microphone and performed a piece called, "I Got Women Trouble".

Young Benschop 'brought the house down'. Patrons were particularly impressed when the seven-year-old boy announced that he had written the poem himself with a little help from grandmother, Parvattie Persaud-Edwards.

It was not difficult to believe that Ryan wrote the piece because of how extensive his vocabulary is. When we sat down with him for a few minutes on Thursday he proudly revealed that he wrote his first poems at three years old.

"I like writing. That was not my first poem but it was the first time I read my poem in public and it felt good," Ryan said.

Though the audience enjoyed the poem many persons could not help comment on how sad it was to hear little Ryan say he wanted his father home. His father, Mark Benschop is currently in prison awaiting retrial on a treason charge.

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I've got woman trouble

By Ryan Benschop

My mom is very pretty

My daddy is so STRONG

I want my daddy home with me

RIGHT where he belong

We need to do together

ALL the things men do

Play cricket and some soccer

And go hang out TOO

I live with TWO women

And I SURE do need a man

Cause being alone with only THEM

DEFIES description

Women are STRANGE creatures

VERY hard to understand

They are like boa constrictors

They LIKE to control man

My grandma calls me DOODOO

RIGHT in front my friends

MY mommy calls me BOOBOO

Embarrassment NEVER ends

They take me to the ladies

When I need the GENTS

I am NOT a girlie

MY plumbing is different

I have grown up now, you see

But even in the public

They kiss and cuddle me

And I end up with lipstick

They do not understand

And THAT'S why I need daddy

I am now a MAN

NOT a namby-pamby sissy