06-18-2014, 02:10 AM
This is not purely autobiographical. I was a therapist for many years and heard many stories from men who were going through something similar, so this is a conglomeration of all of that. The focus of the narrator's anger is on the ex-spouse, because of what she is doing to the girls, and he feels frustrated that he can't stop it. The anger comes out of his love for the girls, that she is turning them into something that will be to their detriment as adults. And he is helpless to stop it because the courts are heavily slanted towards the mother. Obviously by implication the ex-spouse is passing on the values she lives by. What is not explicit is that she, the ex, is bringing a different man home every night, and as the husband knows she is teaching to girls to lie, by calling the father up and saying things like they don't have enough money to eat. Here is one in a similar vein that is a little more explicit, or a little more explanatory.
The Relative Values of X’s and Y’s
Children were returning to school today,
back from the summer holiday,
mine, I saw, weren't among them here.
They were in a foreign land somewhere,
that has an advantageous exchange rate,
where living, just on child support is great,
for a lazy mother, who I just put through school,
and says that taking them away is not cruel.
She tells them how to lie to me,
hoping to scam some more money,
so she can continue to sit on her butt,
and teach my girls to act like sluts.
However, about that I will never have a say,
for the X in court has all the sway,
while the Y most often gets the boot,
unless there is ironclad absolute proof,
of an ongoing pattern of child abuse
extreme; if not, the court is obtuse.
This is how the scales of justice slide,
always strongly tipped to X's side,
and believing from her every lie,
thus X is valued so, over worthless Y.
The courts say that Y is much to crass,
to contribute anything excepting cash,
which they take from me without my say,
that by foreign ATM, X can piss away,
then have my daughters call and beg of me,
saying "We've no food daddy, please send money!"
Dale
The Relative Values of X’s and Y’s
Children were returning to school today,
back from the summer holiday,
mine, I saw, weren't among them here.
They were in a foreign land somewhere,
that has an advantageous exchange rate,
where living, just on child support is great,
for a lazy mother, who I just put through school,
and says that taking them away is not cruel.
She tells them how to lie to me,
hoping to scam some more money,
so she can continue to sit on her butt,
and teach my girls to act like sluts.
However, about that I will never have a say,
for the X in court has all the sway,
while the Y most often gets the boot,
unless there is ironclad absolute proof,
of an ongoing pattern of child abuse
extreme; if not, the court is obtuse.
This is how the scales of justice slide,
always strongly tipped to X's side,
and believing from her every lie,
thus X is valued so, over worthless Y.
The courts say that Y is much to crass,
to contribute anything excepting cash,
which they take from me without my say,
that by foreign ATM, X can piss away,
then have my daughters call and beg of me,
saying "We've no food daddy, please send money!"
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.