"Pearl Bryan" (National Poetry Month poem-a-day) Day 7
Written By Bruce A.
Pandolfo
4/7/17
I've a story, gather
'round
lend me your hearts and
ears
Unwed Pearl, but twenty
two
showed a maternal
sphere
No Pa known though two
assumed:
both Will Wood and
Scott Jackson
Faux Pas felonies to
ruin
their lives so she took
action
She would not will her
cousin,
Will Wood to be
involved with
Her other lover Jackson
whom she pleaded to
solve it
Scott, a dental student
and
his roommate Walling
helped
In Cincinnati they met
Pearl
and earned a spot in
Hell
The procedure a
failure,
drenched a farm field
in red
A young boy found
Pearl's body
No one e'er found her
head
People ogled the brutal
scene
and pilfered souvenirs
Such as crimson
greenery
made by two who
disappeared
Weeping eyes knew their
daughter
by tags and her webbed
toes
The found killers found
guilty
yet still women
proposed
They the last men the
state hung
Be aware, beware behave
To those listening when
sung:
leave coins face up on
her grave
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