You don't want to marry me honey,
Though just to hear you ask me is sweet;
If you did you'd regret it tomorrow
For I'm only a girl of the street.
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This: 'Hop - Wikipedia Slang for Opium, heroin, or other narcotic or psychoactive drugs' : )
(contl.) .....refers to Alcatraz Island (a former federal prison in San Francisco Bay, California) , Did I already send this? : (cont.)
Hop - Slang for Opium, heroin, or other narcotic or psychoactive drugs. And I believe 'That island out there in the bay
This is a wonderful treat (for me) which I found listed as # 58 today in PH's list of Best Member Poems. Kim Barney said I had one at # 60? this week, so I am peeking.
And I like that the poet did not feel 'she' had to have the same number of lines in each stanza. bri : )
I love a long, well-done, story in poetic form, with GOOD rhymes. This is one of THEM!
I'd give this 10 stars if I could! Bonnie Parker? I wonder if the author uses the name from the famed criminal of Bonnie and Clyde infamy.
The life of a fallen angel, and how ‘his' love for him lives on..
I love this poem! Best I have read in quite some time! To my favorites list!
Holy cow, what a poet! I read all her poems and I must say I'm stunned at the sheer force and simple truth that speak through her lines. A poor country girl, " born on the wrong side of the tracks" , becomes a fallen angel after not being given too many chances in life. Should we pity her? Most definitely. Should we forget that she teamed up with a killer, himself a rape and abuse victim? Certainly not. Oh, the humanity.....
Holy cow, what a poet! I read all her poems and I must say I'm stunned at the sheer force and simple truth that speak through her lines. A poor country girl, " born on the wrong side of the tracks" , becomes a fallen angel after not being given too many chances in life. Should we pity her? Most definitely. Should we forget that she teamed up with a killer, himself a rape and abuse victim? Certainly not. Oh, the humanity.....
Good-bye and God bless you.............wonderful