Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Great Regulars: The poems, written in the popular ballad

style of the 1920s and 1930s, celebrate hobos, prostitutes and, above all, her fugitive lover.

In one, entitled I'll Stay, [Bonnie] Parker writes:

Just like the ramblin' roses
Round the porch in summer do
Tho all the world forget you
That's the way I’ll cling to you

from Olivia Cole: The Sunday Times: Found: Bonnie's ballads to Clyde

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