Bonnie Elizabeth Parker Poems

BONNIE'S OWN POEM

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No one must know that I'm lonely
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BONNIE'S OWN POEM

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Dull the prison walls were gleaming
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BONNIE'S OWN POEM

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Billy rode on a pinto horse
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BONNIE'S OWN POEM

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We each of us have a good ''alibi''
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Possibly Bonnie's poem, but also possibly a 'moral danger' poem by an anonymous author which resonated with Bonnie. This poem's name and subject may be influenced by Stephen Crane's 1893 novel ''Maggie, A Girl Of The Streets''. Bonnie's own three poems ''The Story Of Suicide Sal'', ''The Fate Of Tiger Rose'' and ''The Prisoner'', borrow from the structure of this poem.


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BONNIE'S OWN POEM

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You have heard of big ''conventions''
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Just like the ramblin' roses
Round the porch in summer do
Tho all the world forget you
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BONNIE'S OWN POEM

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Yeah, she looks old and bent
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This is the version of this popular traditional poem by an unknown author, written in the late 19th century, set around the San Francisco intersection of Kearney and Pine, close to Maiden Lane and the Chinatown opium dens, as written from memory by Bonnie Parker, into her bank book from The First National Bank Of Burkburnett Texas with nine other poems, while she was in the Kaufman County Jail in 1932.
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