Crossing Over

  
 

The Malvern Leader

September 12, 1934 3c
This paper is pained to report the passing of three of Malvern's most beloved citizens, Mr. William Perry Wright, principal of the high school and editor of this very paper; his wife, Gertrude Allen Wright, accomplished pianist, and their eldest daughter, Miss Helen Wright, currently of Baylor, Texas,
an but formerly one of our most promising young people. They were killed when the car they were driving collided with another vehicle, that of Mr. Henry Dobham, of Glenwood, Iowa. Mr. Wright and his wife perished at the scene while Helen died two days later. Services to be held Saturday at the Methodist Church.
 

no one would take this story


change the ending, they’d say—more shape—more dramatic
make the accident my own creation
in the car that I bought with my own money and taught myself to drive

the one back in the garage in Austin. Did I put up the tarp? Yes. Did I? Yes. Keep the dust off. Did I? Yes.

--not that it matters now--

the moral would be the duller life is the better lived

Moral of my life?
None.
None?

They’ll say wouldcha beat that. Killed in her father’s car five miles from the house she was born in.


And traveled so far, too.

 

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