The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-12

"loved you? Sure did. Why not?
married you and I've lived with you for year,
and | went around with you--when wasn't too
tired--and never looked slant. eyed at any other
man. What do you want from my young life?"
GOOD Heavens! l am wasting my BREATH my
best heart-throbs, on a woman who doesn't under
stand You went around with me-when you
weren't too tired Why, women have walked
with bleeding feet hot stones thousand
miles to kiss the marble monument over the cold
grave of men they loved. And you talk of love-
BAH"
"If the stones they walked on were hot, why
was the marble on the grave cold7"
ooh, rubbish-fgures of speech are lost on
you"
Figures Of speech7 Say-speaking of figures.
the rent is due Monday, and I've got about ten
smacks in the treasury. Please leave me cold
token of your burning devotion before you trek
down,to the poem foundry"
"Tll leave you nothing. I'll leave you yes
TO shift for yourself You are no wfe-you ara
no woman. You have broken my heart and shat.
tered my every idol" .,
Don't be silly, Hilly. I'm your little wiae.
The justice of the peace said so, and | guess he
knows-he learned law in night school. So IL
you're thinking of leaving don't forget to leave
some change you exit, and don't forget to send
some along every week. You haven't got thing
on. me. l look the whole world in the face"
"The whole world--eXcept me-"
"And why not you? You gave me the east
and west and the all over before you hammered
for me to be just what I am right this minute
If you had far-of idea in your bean that after
we were united in holy bonds my ears would turn
purple or you'd mine aroundFfn my perfect 80
figure and strike gold something, that was your
own idea
but you did raise your right hand and swear
something. And now you want to renege because
l don't conform to queer notions that are
all yours about how ought to think and when my
chest should keave. Well, you can't get away
with it. Th~ is the U. s., not Olympia or
Utopia.
"Did you first fall for me because YOU though.
had soul? Did you see stars the first time
you carefully examined my exterior because YOU
thought you had found the reincarnation of
Juliet or something? Nix. You got stuck on
my looks. Well, here they are. They're yours.
Now all that rot about ethereal souls and
kindred spirits gropng in the inscrutable is lot
of bull.
And I'll tell you the lowdown on life. And
III tell 1t to you on the level, because Pm no
poet.
1 nave been fake as wife. But not the
way you think. I've been a cheater and a false
with me and acted like lazy showgirl except for
the fact that haven't ever tried to double cross
you or take you. I've been derelict as a wife.
not as sweetheart. I can't breathe feryent pro-
testatlons OF hot air, because it isn't in my nature
But I've got two hands and two feet. And T car
learn to cook fapjacks and keep a house looking
human 1Id that's my proposition to you, Hillv,
St down and let your hair alone for minute,
"hat want TO DO Is move out in the country and
"A flo bnYNa ,,stn
kitchen. I'll stick my lily hands in the hot
water, and I'll do my own washing. And then.
let's have baby Let's be a couple of neonIe
instead OF being bum poet and model married
out OF slavery. Let's live. I'll show YOU whether
| know what it's all about or not can't ask
you TO lay brick-you don't know how. and Won
don't have to. And you mustn't ask me TO sob
92ut iree verse, because I'm lyric-writcr-and
/ don't have to, either. N
"Ill be all the wife to YOU any ma, rooas a,n
ought to want. don't want to trim Won
want to make good. l promised, and meant n
MY father and mother loved each other some
thing fierce They used to go at each other witB
butcher knives I'll say that's love I'm on tho
square-they managed to keep themselves boiInk
not over each other. When they were talking 10
each other at all, they'd smooch and spoon and
swear how much they adored each other. The
rest of the time my old man was .stewed a,d
-, VI NioIeht ana my ma was
busting vases or out looking for him.
'rhe result was that | grew nm nv, o,-, ,,,.,.
wasn't schooled right, wasn't fed RIGHT
wasn't raised right. When was fourteen T bsot
u out where ! could fight for my own food And
l fought until you came along. | haven't wanted
to night since Least of all do | want 70 ssbt
you. You're all right lilly, You've got good
,e neart, Only, you've got lot of delusions that
stun but, gee-don't try to live it If You d.
Now-1are you with me?"
Biggsey pressed his hand to his broAv ue saw
IN reflection his own boyhood home-the devoteS
dutltul, ploddng mother. Why-sLe Iooked
noble. She took on the graces of duchess and
the romance of a dreamer He saw in retrosnect
ms weather,beaten, unshaven father-the uncom.
planning wiling, faithful old farmer Why-be
m of