<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373912" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rosie Roberts</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was sick, but more than that, I was mad<br>At the crooked police, and the crooked game of life.<br>So I wrote to the Chief of Police at Peoria:<br>&quot;I am here in my girlhood home in Spoon River,<br>Gradually wasting away.<br>But come and take me, I killed the son<br>Of the merchant prince, in Madam Lou's,<br>And the papers that said he killed himself<br>In his home while cleaning a hunting gun --<br>Lied like the devil to hush up scandal,<br>For the bribe of advertising.<br>In my room I shot him, at Madam Lou's,<br>Because he knocked me down when I said<br>That, in spite of all the money he had,<br>I'd see my lover that night.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373912" data-title="Rosie Roberts de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I was sick, but more than that, I was mad At the crooked police, and the crooked game of life. So I wrote to the Chief of Police at Peoria: &quot;I am here in my girlhood home in Spoon River, Gradually wasting away. But come and take me, I killed ..."></div> </div> </div>

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