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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365965" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Pearls of Verna Boone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd been alone for a year or so<br>Since Norma Jean had died, <br>I stayed in the house I'd bought for her<br>At the end of River Drive, <br>I'd felt her death as a fatal blow, <br>A crippling twist of fate, <br>For Norma Jean was my one true love, <br>Though I'd met her a little late! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was past my prime when our eyes had met, <br>And she'd looked so young to me, <br>Her eyes had sparkled like diamonds set<br>As scarabs in sand and sea, <br>She saw the desert behind my eyes, <br>The emptiness in my life, <br>I stumbled over the words, but she<br>Said 'Yes! ' - She would be my wife! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I didn't know that she carried then<br>The seeds of a painful death, <br>Her face was flushed at the altar stone<br>And she seemed so short of breath, <br>I thought it merely a passing faint<br>That excitement had brought on, <br>As we stood in front of the Minister, <br>And joined our lives as one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But then at home, she fell apart, <br>Collapsed on the kitchen floor, <br>I saw her lying, and coughing blood<br>Like I'd never seen before, <br>The doctor called, and he shook his head<br>As he left her there in the bed, <br>'I'm very sorry, ' the doctor sighed, <br>'But your lovely wife is dead! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I cried and raged, and swore at fate<br>I smashed each wedding gift, <br>I wouldn't go to the funeral<br>But stayed at home and wept.<br>I cursed the heavens and thought that hell<br>Could never have been as bad<br>As a love that I'd waited a lifetime for, <br>A love that I'd never had! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The house next door was a rental place, <br>Stood empty for months that year, <br>But then a couple had moved on in, <br>I didn't see him, just her.<br>I thought that he was a traveller, <br>Was constantly on the road, <br>He came at night, and he left at dawn<br>In a battered and ancient Ford.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had no reason to talk to them, <br>I sat at home with my grief, <br>I wandered out in the garden then<br>At one with each falling leaf, <br>But then one day, I heard her there<br>The other side of the fence, <br>Breaking her heart, as crying there<br>She sobbed with vehemence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After a week of this, I climbed<br>The fence, and spoke to her, <br>'Why do you sigh, why do you cry? '<br>But she cried then all the more.<br>I walked around and sat with her<br>Quite late in the afternoon, <br>She smiled, and dried her eyes, and said, <br>'My name is Verna Boone! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She said she'd only been married<br>Just a year this coming Spring, <br>But now that she knew the man he was, <br>Regretted everything, <br>He'd lost her money, just gambled it, <br>Had spent it on other girls, <br>And now they were left with nothing, he<br>Just wanted her mother's pearls! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'They're all I have to remember her, '<br>She sobbed, like a frightened child, <br>'They're worth a lot, but they're more to me, '<br>She looked at me, and smiled.<br>She took me inside and pulled them out<br>Three strings, they were very fine, <br>'He said that he's going to pawn them! '<br>Then she put her small hand in mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was sad, alone and vulnerable, <br>I looked at her lovely curls, <br>She smiled at me, and she asked me then<br>If I'd care for her mother's pearls? <br>'I'll say they're lost, misplaced, I'll say, <br>He'll rant and rage, and more, <br>But he won't be able to pawn them now...'<br>Then she walked me to the door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I took her home, and I placed the pearls<br>With the gems my wife had once: <br>'They'll be all right in the downstairs safe.'<br>It was then that she saw the gun.<br>She looked afraid, but she picked it up<br>And weighed it there in her hand, <br>I took it gently and locked it up<br>With the rest of my contraband.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'She must have watched as I spun the dial, <br>I know - I was such a fool! '<br>The sergeant sat and he stared at me, <br>And his stare was distant, cool.<br>He didn't believe a word I said<br>I could see that now, I'm done! <br>They put me back in a cell to wait<br>To be charged with Murder One! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She told them I had come over when<br>Her husband came home one night, <br>Waving a gun and ranting, then<br>Her husband put up a fight! <br>I'd shot him once through the head, she said, <br>Then taken her on the bed, <br>Stolen a fine pearl necklace, <br>Then beaten and left her for dead! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They found the gun on the floor, they said, <br>I knew that the gun was mine, <br>They found the pearls in my safe, they said, <br>It was only a question of time.<br>She sat at the back of the court while I<br>Was stood in the prisoner's dock, <br>And I noticed she wore her mother's pearls<br>With a nice new evening frock.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">10 August 2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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Since Norma Jean had died, 
I stayed in the house I'd bought for her
At the end of River Drive, 
I'd felt her death as a fatal blow, 
A crippling twist of fate, 
For Norma Jean was my one true love, 
Though I'd met ..."></div>
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