From: "deborah russell" <[log in to unmask]>
> Dear Edditer
>
> da peom i rote
> ish jest too sahye
"A man named Lambert was an outcast of a respectable family, and was known
thus to have spent his last precious moments; and it was on him the
celebrated song of "De nite afore Larry was stretched" is supposed to have
been written. He was a cripple, paralytic on one side, but of irreclaimable
habits. He was at once ferocious and cowardly, and was reported to have
always counselled murdering those whom he had robbed. When on his way to
execution, he shrieked, and clung with his hands to whatever was near him,
and was dragged with revolting violence, by the cord about his neck, to the
gallows from which he fell."
De nite afore Larry was stretched,
De boys de all payed him a visit ...
[Am I imagining this, Deborah, or does your poem smash across at least four
linguistic registers?
Neat.
;-)
Da Freemartin.]
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