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Jackie
"The Son of a Hard Boiled Cop"
ARTHUR C. RICH
"Jackie," adapted from an authentic police record, relates the true experience of a
California police officer who answered an ambulance follow-up call to find
his own five-year old son the victim of a speeding motorist.
You think I'm a hard-boiled copper
For writing a mere "forty-three":
Well perhaps I'm thinking of Jackie
And all that the lad meant to me.
How's that? Tell you all about it?
Well, stranger, the boy was my son.
God! What I'd give to hear, "Daddy,"
Once more when the day's work is done.
The driver was just in a hurry,
He didn't intend any harm,
But the sun and the stars quit shining.
When I picked up my boy's lifeless form.
Well, Mister, I'll tear up this ticket;
I don't want to "pinch" anyone;
But I'd ride this motor through hell-fires
To protect another man's son.
So the next time you feel like speeding
Or passing a boulevard stop.
Just pause and remember my Jackie-
The son of a hard-boiled cop.
Copyright. 1932, by Arthur C. Rich.
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