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Jan Burke
Remember Me, Irene

Irene Kelly Book 04


To Thomas William Burke WHO WELCOMED A STRANGER
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. – BENJAMINDISRAELI
Over and over, they used to ask me While buying the wine or the beer… How I happened to lead the life, And what was the start of it. Well, I told them a silk dress, And a promise of marriage from a rich man… But that was not really it at all. Suppose a boy steals an apple From the tray at the grocery store, And they all begin to call him a thief, The editor, minister, judge, and all the people- “A thief,” “a thief,” “a thief” wherever he goes. And he can’t get work, and he can’t get bread Without stealing it, why the boy will steal. It’s the way the people regard the theft of the apple That makes the boy what he is. – EDGARLEEMASTERS from “Aner Clute” inSpoon River Anthology