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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MISSUS, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: Be kind to the missus, who spends the long
Last Line: She's expecting is love.
Subject(s): Gratitude; Love; Old Age
First Line: Be kind to the missus, who spends the long
Last Line: She's expecting is love.
Subject(s): Gratitude; Love; Old Age
BE kind to the missus, who spends the long days in making your home worth the
while, be free with encouragement, gratitude, praise, and hand her a corpulent
smile. You go to your home from your job in the mart, and talk of the burdens
you've borne, the cares that are racking your galvanized heart, the ills that
are making you mourn. Sweet sympathy comes from the lips of your wife, and love
is aglow on her face; the burdens and cares of her own weary life have nothing
to do with the case. Suppose you forget your own troubles and woes, and think of
the woes of the frau, whose cheeks long ago lost the bloom of the rose, while
wrinkles increased on her brow. Suppose you remember the work she has done, the
endless routine of the years, the toil from the rising to setting of sun, and
always with work in arrears. Suppose you remember when she was a maid, and you
were a love-smitten boy; you painted the future in opulent shade, and promised
her comfort and joy. The missus will toil till she drops in her tracks, and goes
to the rest up above, ignoring the pain and the strain and the tax, and all
she's expecting is love.
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