Indeed He Wrote

It was Clark Gable, who posed the question, “Oh, Mr., Faulkner…do you write?” Indeed, Mr. Gable, Faulkner wrote… About that postage stamp of native soil In many books and stories did his typewriter toil regaling about that mythical place he called Yoknapatawpha County somewhere in the rolling hills of north Mississippi he penned a tale about Colonel John Sartoris of Boon Hogganbeck and Lucius McCaslin taking a trip to Memphis, Tennessee in “Boss” Priest’s Wynton Flyer they were “The Reivers”—footloose and fancy free Yes, Mr. Gable, Faulkner wrote… of Quentin Compson—“The Sound and the Fury” the perils of the Bundren family—“As I Lay Dying” Vardaman said, “My mother is a fish” Indeed, Mr. Gable, “Mr. Bill” Faulkner did write about Emily Grierson, her male admirers in “A Rose for Emily” the trilogy of the Snopes family, such a literary tapestry Oh, heavens, Mr. Gable, Mr. Faulkner did write In every novel, every story, all about his native Mississippi his works a marvelous contribution to America’s rich literary history --Allen Baswell © 02-25-22