What was his crime? / He only killed his wife.
But a divorce I say. / Not final, they say;
Her things were his / including her life.”
Convicted not of murder / but of “womanslaughter” because
“Men cannot kill their wives. / They passion them to death.”
For this murder in Texas, he served one year in a work-release program; three years after this murder in Texas, Parker vows
“I will come to my sisters / not dutiful, / I will come strong.
Womenslaughter, reprinted by permission, Pat Parker 1978.
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