Article: "Zora Neale Hurston on Divorce and Alimony"

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Lenona.

http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=11871

January 5th, 2011 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

"I’ve written some about alimony, its proper and improper uses.  The
following is a recently discovered satirical work published in 1927
by Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston.  Thanks to Don for
the heads-up."

Monkey Junk: A Satire on Modern Divorce

1. And it came to pass in those days that one dwelt in the land of the
Harlemites who thought that he knew all the law and the prophets.

2. Also when he arose in the morning and at noonday his mouth flew
open and he said, “Verily, I am a wise guy. I knoweth all about
women.”

3. And in the cool of the evening he saith and uttereth, “I know all
that there is about the females. Verily, I shall not let myself be
married.”

4. Thus he counselled within his liver for he was persuaded that merry
maidens were like unto death for love of him.

5. But none desired him.

6. And in that same year a maiden gazeth upon his checkbook and she
coveted it.

7. Then became she coy and sweet with flattery and he swalloweth the
bait.


Lenona.