dust bowl journal
december 1935.
Dear diary, i lost count of how many days this wind of dust took over us. In march presidant FDR made pa sign somethin but a month later he died from dust nemona since he wudn listen to ma wen she kept tellin him “Moses Jonathan Beauregard get yer ass back in here before that storm from the devil eats ya!” doc had to stay wid us til the wind was soft enough for him to run his chubby self back into his 1930 blackhawk that had dust in the back seats. he told us pa had a lot of dust in his breating sacks i don no wat ther cald lugs? oh hell wid it.like i was sayin pa was to much of a jackass that he didn listen to ma or the docs that gave him a breatin masc he probly nu dat it wudn work. 1 thin for shur dat got pa redder than a tomato was we had to kill bessie clover and anabell just for food and money. i don wanna tell ma and price but we cal em doodle cuz he likes drawin in the dust that im scared ma wud cry and doodle wud get scared to. shoot we shuda left to california like the others i here ther cald okies and 1 in 5 wer from oklahoma and the rest wer from everywhere else. i here doodle is gettin sic to. damn and hes my baby brother 1st i loos pappy and mammy before dis all started and now pas 6 feet under and turnin in is grave cuz of me. we got a newspaper from april and dats wat ma uses to teach us scul stuf. a reporter cald the storm “Dust Bowl” i think is name was Robert Greiger or somthin its probly gonna stick to. im stil in 6th grade and doodle is in kindergarden i wanna lern mor but we got no scul its under the dust now wid pa pappy and others that got sick. mas ben cofing me and doodle to i wanna live but it don look like it.
janary 1936.
i cofed up som dust onto the paper and i lost it for a month than i found this one. we got a lot of dust out of owr breatin sacks but we got a big problem and it starts with the letters r and b. we got rabbits and bugs. well thank god for givin us food now we gotta fix the well for water in dis
Dear diary, i lost count of how many days this wind of dust took over us. In march presidant FDR made pa sign somethin but a month later he died from dust nemona since he wudn listen to ma wen she kept tellin him “Moses Jonathan Beauregard get yer ass back in here before that storm from the devil eats ya!” doc had to stay wid us til the wind was soft enough for him to run his chubby self back into his 1930 blackhawk that had dust in the back seats. he told us pa had a lot of dust in his breating sacks i don no wat ther cald lugs? oh hell wid it.like i was sayin pa was to much of a jackass that he didn listen to ma or the docs that gave him a breatin masc he probly nu dat it wudn work. 1 thin for shur dat got pa redder than a tomato was we had to kill bessie clover and anabell just for food and money. i don wanna tell ma and price but we cal em doodle cuz he likes drawin in the dust that im scared ma wud cry and doodle wud get scared to. shoot we shuda left to california like the others i here ther cald okies and 1 in 5 wer from oklahoma and the rest wer from everywhere else. i here doodle is gettin sic to. damn and hes my baby brother 1st i loos pappy and mammy before dis all started and now pas 6 feet under and turnin in is grave cuz of me. we got a newspaper from april and dats wat ma uses to teach us scul stuf. a reporter cald the storm “Dust Bowl” i think is name was Robert Greiger or somthin its probly gonna stick to. im stil in 6th grade and doodle is in kindergarden i wanna lern mor but we got no scul its under the dust now wid pa pappy and others that got sick. mas ben cofing me and doodle to i wanna live but it don look like it.
janary 1936.
i cofed up som dust onto the paper and i lost it for a month than i found this one. we got a lot of dust out of owr breatin sacks but we got a big problem and it starts with the letters r and b. we got rabbits and bugs. well thank god for givin us food now we gotta fix the well for water in dis