Understand, she told him “no.”

He was a patient man and so,

He gently explained why she should,

(You see he tried.) She shook her head

And said something else instead

Of “yes.” He had to shout

And warn her, so there’d be no doubt

That he was serious, yet she

Refused to comprehend. So he

Really, sadly, had no choice,

When he heard, in a women’s voice.

Such gross, unkind audacity.

She started it.

She told him “no.”