Now I'm goin 2 talk abowt a long tyme reel qwick sew I kan hurry up and get 2 the citing part of my awto bygraphy.
My man met a woman 1 tyme wen he wus duin sumpn wurkin extra at a diffurnt playce than he went 2 evry day and he did sumpn with this woman kalled dating and then I guess it was bout a year or maybe sum more that they did sumpn kalled gettin married. Sew then my man and me and the womun he married called a wyfe moved to a partment. Well, course I culdn't see this womun who wus living with us cus I didn't have no eyes but she talked reel nyce and my man liked her a hole lot . And I culdn't C the kitty kat that cum 2 live with us named Jiggs either but sumtymes he wuld rub up aginst me and he wus real nyce and soft.
Here's a pitcher of wat my man's wyfe luked lyke back wen they did that thing kalled getting married:
Purty soon aftur the marrried thing my man sed Old Bear we r goin 2 move agin cus we bot a howse to live in. So that is wat we did. And I didn't lyke it very much cus wen we got there I got put back in a kloset agin and wus there 4 a long tyme. No, my man wusn't mad at me or nuthin. He jist put me in the closet sew I wuldn't get more hurt cus of all the movin and stuff and then he forgot all abowt me for a long tyme. And that is goin 2 be the citin part of my awto bygraphy wen I get there.
Wen I wus in the closet I culdn't see nuthin but I herd lots of things and one day wen my man wus at wurk I heard the lady called his wyfe fall down but I didn't hear her get up agin. I sorta wundered bot that, but I thot maybe cus of my bad ear I didn't hear her get up. But it sure wus quiet in our house.
I guess it wus dark tyme wen my man cum home frum wurk and I herd him say 'u better get up off the floor cus it is supper tyme'. (My man didn't think it wus funny 2 C her on the floor cus that is wear she slept lots off tymes.) Then purty soon I herd him on the tellyfone sayin 2 sumbudy I think she is dead. Then sum lowd syrens stopped in front of our howse and there were sum people cum in and then it got all quiet. Then the next day lots of people started cumin 2 our howse and my gramma frum Ilnoyze cum and my aunt penny from Okluhomea kum and then evrybudy went to sumpn kalled a funeral which is sort of lyke a party but reel sad cus people cry a lot.
Well, after the sad party everybudy went home and my man membered I wus in the closet and he got me owt and he sed old bear it is jist u and me and the kitty here now. And do U know that 4 a purty long tyme after that he wuld pick me up and let me sit with him and his eyes wuld sumtymes get water in them.
Du U ever have 1 of those things kalled dreams? I don't cus I hardly ever sleep very much but wat a dream is is sort of a movie show in ur head wen u r sleeping. Well, my man sed he had a dream one nite a purty long tyme later but he didn't no if it wus a dream or not cus it shure seemed reel to him. He rote a poum abut this dream and here is wat he rote:
Good Friday was the date
When my wife passed away.
On Thursday she was fifty-seven,
She died the very next day.
Several weeks had passed quickly by,
Since Goodbye to her I said.
My dreams were during the working day
Not in my solitary bed.
Then one night as I was asleep
I saw her plain as day.
My surprise was so complete
There was nothing I could say.
She was as I had known her
At the time we wed
And when she was the first
With whom I shared a bed.
I saw her slim and trim
Instead of over weight.
With hair now black instead of gray
She looked just great.
Her dress was one I remembered well.
Black and plain as could be,
But her favorite in those early days
When she dressed up for me.
The pearls around her neck
I thought had been lost long ago.
How sad she had been to admit
"Where they are I do not know".
For a minute she just stood and looked
And then I heard her say
"I am going on a trip, one very long;
I'm sorry, but you'll have to stay."
When I asked her about this trip,
For of course I wanted to know,
Her reply was only the repeated words
You cannot go; you cannot go."
I did not see her leave the room
But in a moment she was gone.
My sleep was no longer disturbed
Until I woke at dawn.
In spirits I did not believe
Until this night with her.
I expect it was just a dream,
But I'm really not so sure.
If U want 2 go on to Chaptur Three of my awtobygraph you just go thru this door.
That's wear I'm goin 2 tell u about Enby and the Pretty Lady and the doll hospital and stuff lyke that.