Bonnie Elizabeth Parker Poems

BONNIE'S OWN POEM:


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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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No one must know that I'm lonely
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Bonnie Parker wrote this poem, by Agnes L. Pratt, from memory with some cute substitutions, into her bank book from The First National Bank Of Burkburnett Texas, as the fifth of ten poems, during her stay in the Kaufman County Jail in 1932.

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I learn as the years roll onward
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Foreword

This is a poetic eulogy to the outlaw Bonnie Parker.
Including here all the known poems associated with Bonnie,
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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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