Life and Death of Bayou Billy by Bevill C.L

Author:Bevill, C.L.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 1 black humor, 2 humorous, 3 grave robbing
Publisher: C.L. Bevill

Chapter Sixteen

From an interview with Mrs. Rosa Gonzalez, nee Zamarrippa, former resident of Pegram County, Texas, dated August 23rd, 1967. The material is stored in the University of Texas at Arlington’s special collections section. The interviewer is unknown:

Mrs. Gonzalez: Oh, si, I’ve heard the rumors about my sordid life. They say I was a prostitute and they say I was visited by such people as the Governor of Texas, Clark Gable once, and even Bayou Billy. I wouldn’t say I was a bad woman. I was only doing what women have being doing since God made Eve. Well, the truth was that I was merely a good… companion. I wouldn’t say otherwise. I knew a man who called himself Bill and he would visit me in the late thirties and early forties. I suppose he could have been the famous Bayou Billy, I don’t really remember. Si, he was very generous. And very aggressive. All male, usted entiende? Also, he was muy pequeño, a woman as such as myself doesn’t like to talk about such things. A tall man, yes. Good muscles, handsome in his late thirties, you know. But his sweetmeats, minúsculo, you know? I’ve heard other rumors that say he was a large man, with a long, you know, pecker, but that was all a bunch of lies. Maybe Bill told people that himself, to make himself look like the big man. But Bill, he came to see me, real regular, and it got around town that he was coming real regular. (Laughter.) And was he ever. For a man with a puny whanker, he certainly liked his sex. Nothing little about his appetites. Mira, this isn’t going to be printed just as I’ve spoken? I don’t want my grandchildren reading this. Oh, they wouldn’t understand, you know.

Interviewer: No, ma’am. This is background information. Anything that I would like to use as a direct quote, I will ask specifically for your permission to print, and of course, you can refuse. I also don’t have to name you specifically.

Mrs. Gonzalez: Oh. Well then. You know the police weren’t very happy about my…activities in those days. A lady needed to do what she had to do to survive, and jobs were scarce then, unless you were white and a man. After the war, it was that you needed to be white, a man, and a veteran. But eso es ése. That’s that. I did some things that were illegal. Twenty years later, I don’t think the police have much interest in me or what was done. Statute of limitations, usted entiende? I looked that up in the library five years ago after one of my friends told me about it. Mi amiga, she worked the house with me, back in the old days. Her daughter is a lawyer in Los Angeles. Very clever girl, she is. So I don’t think I should be afraid of being named. But my family, they don’t comprende. The little ones, they think being a whore is a bad thing.

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