Historiens värsta Banditer

POETISK RÄTTFÄRDIG­HET

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Bonnie, Clyde och några av deras kumpaner hade alltid lyckats smita undan polisen, även vid oväntade tillslag. Vid det här tillfället år 1933 hade paret hyrt en lägenhet i Joplin i Missouri för att slappna av och tillbringa tid tillsamman­s med Clydes bror, Buck. Några veckors lugn och ro avbröts då två polisbilar kom till platsen och det slutade med att en polis låg livlös, medan en annan var allvarligt skadad.

Även om skurkarna slapp undan den gången efterlämna­de de några ovärderlig­a souvenirer: oframkalla­d film och en av Bonnies dikter. Detta är ett utdrag från Bonnie Parkers första dikt med titeln ”The Story Of Suicide Sal”:

We each of US have a good ”alibi” For being down here in the ”joint”; But few of them really are justified If you get right down to the point.

You’ve heard of a woman’s ”glory” Being spent on a ”downright cur”, Still you can’t always judge the story As true, being told by her.

As long as I’ve stayed on this ”island,” And heard ”confidence tales” from each ”gal”, Only one seemed interestin­g and truthful - The story of ”Suicide Sal.”

Now ”Sal” was a gal of rare beauty, Though her features were coarse and tough; She never once faltered from duty

To play on the ”up and up”.

”Sal” told me this tale on the evening Before she was turned out ”free”, And I’ll do my best to relate it Just as she told it to me:

I was born on a ranch in Wyoming; Not treated like Helen of Troy;

I was taught that ”rods were rulers” And ”ranked” as a greasy cowboy.

Then I left my old home for the city To play in its mad dizzy whirl, Not knowing how little of pity It holds for a country girl.

There I fell for ”the line” of a ”henchman”, A ”profession­al killer” from ”Chi”; I couldn’t help loving him madly;

For him even now I would die.

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