Stan Cooper
Cartoon by Don Hunt

SPINSTERS

I never had the slightest notion
Why spinsters were so harried
Or why they’re caused so much commotion
Remaining so unmarried

When a gent a bachelor remains
He is rarely the butt of a frown
If from marrying he abstains
He’s seen as a ‘man about town’

If a lass wants to live alone
It’s not for us to say
Or make her feel she must atone
For choosing her own way

Some people make the inference
Their values are for all
Never accepting difference
They act so dog-gone small

A more congenial world to live in
Creating less despair
Wouldn’t be so bigotry driven
With judgments so unfair

It surely is unkind
Poking fun at spinsters’ lives
With reason they might find
Spinsters wiser than wives

©Copyright October 1999 by Stan Cooper
Cartoon ©Copyright 1999 by Don Hunt