Where is it written

That husbands get forty-five-dollar lunches and invitations to South America for think conferences while

Wives get Campbell’s black bean soup and a trip to the firehouse with the third grade and

Where is it written

That husbands get to meet beautiful lady lawyers and beautiful lady professors of ancient history and beautiful sculptresses and heiresses and poetesses while

Wives get to meet the checker with the acne at the Safeway and

Where is it written

That husbands get a nap and the football game on Sundays while

Wives get to help color in the coloring book and

Where is it written

That husbands get ego gratification, emotional support, and hot tea in bed for ten days when they have the sniffles while

Wives get to give it to them?

And if a wife should finally decide

Let him take the shoes to the shoemaker and the children to the pediatrician and the dog to the vet while she takes up something like brain surgery or transcendental meditation,

Where is it written

That she always has to feel

Guilty?