If men only fought outwards into the world
women might be devoted and gentle.
The fight’s got to go in some direction.
But when men turn Willy wet-legs
women start in to make changes;
only instead of changing things that might be changed
they want to change the man himself
and turn the poor silk glove into a lusty sow’s ear.
And the poor Willy wet-legs, the soft silk gloves,
how they hate the women’s efforts to turn them
into sow’s ears!
The modem Circe-dom!