:15:00
You held Bernadette naked!
:15:04
We don't know
what you do at night but...
:15:07
If Papa knew!
:15:13
In memory
of our wild nights of rapture!
:15:17
Gerard the big chicky
:15:21
and his little woman!
:15:27
Victoriously we signed it
with vengeance
:15:30
"The Brats"
:15:32
We sent it in an envelope
to Bernadette Jouve's address
:15:37
At the end of vacation, Life gave
its cruelest reply to our letter,
:15:42
leaving an abominable sadness
in our hearts
:15:47
We learned Bernadette's fiance
had died that summer
:15:51
in a mountain-climbing accident
:15:56
At heart, we weren't mean,
but beset with a rage...
:16:00
children feel concerning Love,
:16:02
unknown yet haunting
:16:04
What were we after?
:16:14
What were the impossible love
and kisses
:16:17
we were as proud of
as if they were our own?
:16:37
Gerard's tragic death
was a distant thing for us
:16:41
and we took the news coldly
:16:44
But one autumn day in October
:16:47
Bernadette passed us, not seeing us
:16:52
Later I recalled the event
more with pity than shame
:16:56
but I have a bitter memory of her...
:16:58
gone from our childhood skies...