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JerryPat
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since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

0 posted 2011-01-19 07:28 PM

Big rig driver made a stop that cold night,
To top off with diesel and eat a bite,
Headed to El Paso with a full load,
On a south Texas dreary mountain road.

She stood to the side of the cafe's ramp,
He averted his eyes, thought her a tramp.
After his meal, he drank a cup of joe,
After coffee he tallied what he owed.

She was still there, bent against the cold wind,
Please, Mister, she said, I just need a friend.
He did a double take; she was with child,
She was a desperate soul and tried to smile.

He loaded her up inside his warm cab,
She said, Thank you, and her stomach she grabbed.
He went back inside for something to eat,
She gobbled it up and said, Aren't you sweet.

Now that she was there, what was he to do?
He timidly asked her when are you due?
She told him there was no family or friends,
No one in the world for her to depend.

In the mountain range of Guadalupe,
Her labor began, she asked him to pray.
He pulled off the road and shut the rig down,
It was much too far to get to a town.

The baby was coming, it would not wait,
She in the sleeper awaiting her fate,
He tried to help, but it was just his luck,
They were both stuck out there in his old truck.

The blood soaked everything, even her screams,
There was no water, not even a stream.
The baby came and mother died on cue,
How he got through it all he never knew.

He held the squealing, bloody baby girl,
And something inside him started to swirl.
The babe started out, odds all against her,
The blood-spattered child was only a cur.

In El Paso he made all the right stops,
Hospital for child, and they called the cops.
Mother buried in potter's field so sad,
He claimed the child, saying he was her dad.

~ Clones are people two ~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2011-01-19 07:36 PM

Jerry, what a story! So sweet and sad at the same time. Nobody tells it like you.
Lori

JerryPat
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since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

2 posted 2011-01-19 07:39 PM

Hi Lori. After reading Rex's "The Freckled Face of a Girl" I dug this one up. Mine don't quite stand up to his, but I wanted to post it.

~ Clones are people two ~

Rex Allen McCoy
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since 2000-01-30

Posts 2863
Sippin a Timmy's in London

3 posted 2011-01-19 07:57 PM

It stands up perfectly Jerry ... It's amazing how life can hit us in the face with its twists and turns and in the end, we can still make the right decisions

this would make a good theme for a movie, Jerry

Rex Allen McCoy
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Posts 2863
Sippin a Timmy's in London

4 posted 2011-01-19 08:01 PM

and the girl could grow to be the first woman President

JerryPat
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since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

5 posted 2011-01-19 08:06 PM

Thanks Rex. About it being a good for a movie. I have begun a novel concerning the girl who was born and the trucker. Had to stop the writing of the novel because it just wasn't going where I wanted it to go. I'll get back to it. In the novel she didn't make the White House. Yet.

I still don't think it stands up to yours.

~ Clones are people two ~

faithmairee
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since 2011-01-05

Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA

6 posted 2011-01-19 09:33 PM

wow...what a sad and moving tale...expertly told

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

JerryPat
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since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

7 posted 2011-01-19 09:53 PM

Thank you faith.

~ Clones are people two ~

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

8 posted 2011-01-20 01:39 AM

Another great story Jerry.
Quite a sad twist but then that's what life presents sometimes.
Great stuff.

Eric

two maggots were fighting in dead earnest!

JerryPat
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since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

9 posted 2011-01-20 05:36 AM

I thank you, Eric, for stopping by, reading and commenting.

~ Clones are people two ~

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

10 posted 2011-01-20 12:05 PM

A gripping story, Jerry. I had my heart in my mouth from the time she went into labour. I keep wanting to read it again and find that I misunderstood and that she didn't die.

Owl

JerryPat
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since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

11 posted 2011-01-20 01:03 PM

I could have written it that way, Owl, but I felt it was a better situation with the daughter surviving and the trucker takking it upon himself to see that she would have a fighting chance to survive in this world.

~ Clones are people two ~

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

12 posted 2011-01-20 01:35 PM

Oh, I agree, Jerry, but I was just being greedy. Smiles.

Owl

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