There Used to Be a Woman Named Bonny Who Lived Here on County Route 20
died a few years ago
she said she'd been the girlfriend
of John Lennon had his picture
in her bedroom worked in the post office
for years took us to an Ice Cream Social
in Conesville New York and said she was
allergic to all ice cream especially chocolate
loved John Philip Sousa she did not know
how to make a cup of tea she did know
how to dig her own septic system she had
horses and dogs and a room full of Cher wigs
and outfits like no one else she wore an Annie Oakley
outfit to dinner that I will remember forever
with bright blue boots she'd lived in Montana once
wouldn't say what she'd done there I keep wishing
I'd written her story made up the details
she refused to tell like how she met John
and what happened.