Twice annually
Madeline shopped in Paris and Rome;
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NO PROOF WHATSOEVER SHE EVER SHOPPED IN PARIS AND ROME... A FASHION ICON SHE WAS NOT
Each year
A new WHITE Cadillac CONVERTIBLE
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COULD BE ANYONE
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Her new penthouse apartment
Included four originals by Matisse
And had been the birthplace
Of six Broadway hits;
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NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER THAT SHE EVER HAD A FANCY PENTHOUSE APARTMENT BUT PLENTY OF EVIDENCE SHE DIDN’T. HER ADDRESSES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
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She was available by appointment
Only to select white Gentiles
Well rated in DUN & BRADSTREET
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NO WAY DOES THIS APPLY TO MADELYN DUNHAM
She was hospitalized
For a year at thirty-two
Because of a nervous breakdown
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WHERE IS THE PRROOF? NO PROOF WHATSOEVER THAT SHE HAD A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AT THE AGE OF 32 IN 1954 WHEN STANLEY ANNE WAS 12 YEARS OLD.
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When her maid
Angry at being fired
Called her a floozy.
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NO PROOF MADELYN EVER HAD A MAID AND SHE SEEMED MORE LIKE A GOODY TWO SHOES THAN A FLOOZY.
(’Black Moods - Uncollected and Unpublished Poems: Horizontal Cameos: 37 Portraits’, pg 220)
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Here is another poem from the same book that is likely about Ann Dunham:
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PLEASE DON’T STATE THAT AS FACT, YOU ARE ONLY GUESSING IT IS ABOUT STANLEY ANNE DUNHAM THOUGH IT COULD BE. WHAT YEAR WAS IT WRITTEN? AND BY THE WAY, WHAT A STUPID, MEANINGLESS NOTHING POEM.
# 2. Anne
In the gangling hours
Thin, adolescent hours
Before night runs softly
Away into the west
Anne rises wearily
From her tired bed
And sleeps
Sitting in a chair
1. It has already been shown that Madeline Payne had a white convertible, was into banking (i.e Dun & Bradstreet), like traveling and lived in an apartment. All of these traits are indicated in the Madeline poem.
2. Maid excerpt from poem:
When her maid
Angry at being fired
Called her a floozy.
Dreams Ch 4 shows that not only did Madeline have an au pair (maid) but that Ann Dunham was an pair (maid) as shown here:
(1) ‘“Naw,” Frank said, “I don’t suppose he would have. Stan doesn’t like to talk about that part of Kansas much. Makes him uncomfortable. He told me once about a black girl they hired to look after your mother. A preacher’s daughter, I think it was. Told me how she became a regular part of the family. That’s how he remembers it, you understand-this girl coming in to look after somebody else’s children, her mother coming to do somebody else’s laundry. A regular part of the family.” (Dreams from My Father Ch 4)
(2) “I [Ann Dunham] was only sixteen then,” she told us as we entered the elevator. “I’d just been accepted to the University of Chicago- Gramps hadn’t told me yet that he wouldn’t let me go-and I was there for the summer, working as an AU PAIR’ (Dreams from My Father Ch 4)
Does this description of Madeline from Dreams Ch 3 sound like she is goody two shoes or a floozy:
‘Every morning, she woke up at five A.M. and changed from the frowsy muu-muus she wore around the apartment into a tailored suit and high-heeled pumps. (Dreams from My Father Ch 3)