Poor Spousal Support
His espousal of a single life was open to debate,
for with a wife and three small girls, it came a little late.
But he lusted for the “good life” now that he earned a lot.
He yearned for wild night life and planned to buy a yacht.
That their spousal settlement was measly, it is true,
but her husband was a lawyer, so what was she to do?
She made the children T-shirts with an acronym
that best described their father and what she thought of him.
When people were inquisitive, she told them they should say
that CHEAP was an acronym, and without delay,
that the meaning of it was “Chump Husband Earns A Pittance”
and that is why he’s often late in sending their remittance.
And on the T-shirt’s back, she reserved another space
for another acronym for their dad to face:
There it spelled out HUNGER, whose letters expressed fairly
the naked truth: “His UnderNourished Genepool ‘s Eating Rarely!!!
Prompt words today are measly, reserved, acronym, espousal, settlement and inquisitive.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Good poem, bad thoughts….
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Hyperbole..hard to work those prompts in. They sometimes whisper bad thoughts into my fingers.
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Actually what you were alluding to is, unfortunately, too often completely true…. I have seen it, sadly too closely for comfort.. What I was speaking about was the sad fact that it needed to be said, and you did~! So Thanks~!
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I agree with Sam: very clever use of prompts, but to get kids involved in spousal battles goes against my grain.
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Fathers who don’t support their families goes against my grain and I’ve had so many friends who were either the spouses or the children in such situations. In one case the dad never contributed one cent, then came and became his son’s best friend when he was in his 30’s. I guess better late than never, but my sympathies were with the mother who scrounged out a living for all those years raising her son. That said, as usual, this poem is fiction, dear Dolly. ;o)
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I completely agree regarding fathers who do not pay child support, yet the children who have been already traumatized by divorce, should not be subjected to further trauma by involving them in the fight.
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So clever Judy! But so sad…
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Thanks, Linda. Unfortunately happens too often.
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Good one Judy.
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So nicely wrought
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Sad state of affairs.
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