Da Vinci’s Muse

My wife dislikes the income tax, And so I cannot pay it;

She thinks that golf all interest lacks, So now I never play it;

She is opposed to tolls repeal (Though why I cannot say),

But woman’s duty is to feel, And man’s is to obey.

I’m in a hard position for a perfect gentleman,

I want to please the ladies, but I don’t see how I can,

My present wife’s a suffragist, and counts on my support,

But my mother is an anti, of a rather biting sort;

One grandmother is on the fence, the other much opposed,

And my sister lives in Oregon, and thinks the question’s closed;

Each one is counting on my vote to represent her view.

Now what should you think proper for a gentleman to do?