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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UNAPPRECIATIVE MAN, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: My husband,' sighed the weeping wife
Last Line: "sit upon the floor, and weep and wail forevermore."
Subject(s): Marriage; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating
First Line: My husband,' sighed the weeping wife
Last Line: "sit upon the floor, and weep and wail forevermore."
Subject(s): Marriage; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating
"MY husband," sighed the weeping wife, "has made a ruin of my life. He does not
seem to yearn or long for Higher Things, like Art and Song. The sordid things to
him appeal; he'd rather have a good square meal, than sit with me through
dreamful days, reciting Robert Browning's lays. A noble painting on the wall
makes no appeal to him at all; with scorn he'll pass the picture by, and say
he'd rather have a pie. Because the bread is always hard, because his
porterhouse is charred, because the coffee's weak and thin, he'll make a most
unseemly din. He can't be made to realize that noble odes beat oyster fries,
that Ibsen's pen, surcharged with ink, surpasses sausage in the link, that
Handel's grand harmonic burst beats schweitzer cheese or liverwurst. So here I
sit upon the floor, and weep and wail forevermore."
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