She’s smiling her prettiest; he’s looking grim,
As their pathways converge at the altar,
For, while she’s complacent about hooking him,
His mumblings include the word “halter”.
For the first time, it’s hit him they don’t teach in school
What’s turned him unsteady and pale:
Mere man’s the exception who’s proving the rule
That the dominant sex is the male.
by Ray Romine Thursday, March 15, 1951
