(”My wife is against suffrage, and that settles me.”
-Vice-President Marshall.)
I
My wife dislikes the income tax,
And so I cannot pay it;
She thinks that golf all interest lacks,
So now I never play it;
She is opposed to tolls repeal
(Though why I cannot say),
But woman's duty is to feel,
And man's is to obey.
II
I'm in a hard position for a perfect gentleman,
I want to please the ladies, but I don't see how I can,
My present wife's a suffragist, and counts on my support,
But my mother is an anti, of a rather biting sort;
One grandmother is on the fence, the other much opposed,
And my sister lives in Oregon, and thinks the question's closed;
Each one is counting on my vote to represent her view.
Now what should you think proper for a gentleman to do?
Representation
Alice Duer Miller
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Poem topics: feel, golf, mother, never, perfect, sister, woman, play, question, hard, support, duty, view, fence, position, I love you, I miss you, wife, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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