Donald Satz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Bob Draper wrote:
>
>>I find this story sick!
>
>I assume Bob dislikes the story because the boyfriend continues to stay
>with the girlfriend and raise her child as his own.  If that's "sick",
>there are a lot of sick puppies in the world.
>
>...  The child that resulted in the story is just an aside; it's the
>infidelity that's significant.

To reiterate, because there seems to be a lot of misinformation about this:
in Diemehl's pome *THERE IS NO INFIDELITY*.

The woman, having despaired of finding "mr. right" decided to go ahead and
have a child with someone else.  *Then* she met "mr. right" hence the walk
in the moonlight.

I thought the poem was usually considered hopelessly old-fashioned today,
because most men now would not consider the woman "spoiled goods" and would
take on the child.

Seems I thought wrong.  Or maybe it's just that everyone else has the wrong
end of the stick about the poem.

Deryk Barker
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