<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443785" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>There Goes My Baby</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I use to find myself staring at her.<br>She was so very beautiful, <br>My mother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Boy, why are you staring at me? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~Ma, you are so pretty! ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Okay, what do you want? <br>I don't have any more money, <br>For you to buy another 45.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I use to 'stay' in Roz Records.<br>It was a music store, <br>Not far from our apartment in Bellevue Square.<br>On Canton Street.<br>In Hartford, Connecticut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I remember my first 45...<br>'There Goes My Baby'<br>By the Drifters! <br>I would play it 'all' the time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~Ma, you so pretty! ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Boy, you better get out of my face.<br>And go play with the other kids in the playground.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I did it! <br>Like a chore.<br>Children bored me back then! <br>They were so...'childish'.<br>And I was born a grown man.<br>I was! <br>But that's a different story.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think most boys become infatuated, <br>With their mothers first.<br>Giving wives competition they did not expect.<br>And most men who had been mama's boys...<br>Usually divorce.<br>To be left on missions, <br>To find someone to spoil them! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know.<br>I've been married twice.<br>To do that 'thrice'<br>Would be absolutely foolish.<br>'Huh...ma? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Dedicated: <br>In loving memory to my mother, <br>Edna Roberts-Prudhomme Pertillar<br>'Miss you, ma! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</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=443785" data-title="There Goes My Baby de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I use to find myself staring at her. She was so very beautiful, My mother. 'Boy, why are you staring at me? ' ~Ma, you are so pretty! ~ 'Okay, what do you want? I don't have any more money, For you to buy another 45.' I use to 'stay' in Roz..."></div> </div> </div>

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