{"id":9398,"date":"2026-04-06T17:32:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/?post_type=article&p=9398"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:32:33","slug":"dolly-parton-sings-to-burt-reynolds-at-the-end-of-the-best-little-whorehouse-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/article\/dolly-parton-sings-to-burt-reynolds-at-the-end-of-the-best-little-whorehouse-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Sings to Burt Reynolds at the End of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacklin Farley<\/h2>\n

 <\/p>\n

I will always love you<\/em>, Burt Reynolds, even<\/p>\n

whilst clinging to the foot of the stairs leading<\/p>\n

into this now empty country parlor, in this now<\/p>\n

vacant farmhouse just outside the county limits<\/p>\n

of your well-intentioned, home-grown-American,<\/p>\n

damned near stupid conservative small town. I will<\/em><\/p>\n

always love you<\/em> in the silence of ceiling fans once<\/p>\n

turning in every room because of the utility bill<\/p>\n

that I always paid on time with good money, and<\/p>\n

I will always<\/em> love in the dissipated cloud of fussy<\/p>\n

and fat hens that were once pecking worms from<\/p>\n

my backyard, so rich with dirt. And I will always<\/em><\/p>\n

love you just as I am now \u2013 with my enormous tits<\/p>\n

and neon blonde wig beehived up to high heaven \u2013<\/p>\n

and from the unfathomable depths of my steel blue<\/p>\n

-cut eye creese and snatched suede pioneer dress<\/p>\n

although you know better than anyone in the state<\/p>\n

that I have always made due loving you in less. And<\/p>\n

as I will always love you<\/em> falls from my Pepto-pink<\/p>\n

Barbie doll lips, I thrust away the urge to touch you<\/p>\n

as I have many times before in the night, because now<\/p>\n

more than ever I wish I could just suckle you, your<\/p>\n

obnoxiously chiseled mustached face, and just plum<\/p>\n

forget about the mass of good, working girls \u2013 my<\/em> girls \u2013<\/p>\n

now hurdling on Greyhound buses towards every major<\/p>\n

US city on the map with open legs all because some<\/p>\n

morally corrupt televangelist with a bad bowl cut made<\/p>\n

you out to be less of man. But I will always love you<\/em>,<\/p>\n

because once upon a time, I thought you were more. Men<\/p>\n

before you have always found ways to point to my ruin<\/p>\n

and yet still invented cruel and unusual methods of soiling<\/p>\n

me better than I ever could on my own. Even the script<\/p>\n

says that when I finally stop singing I will always love you<\/em>,<\/p>\n

you will ask me into your sheriff\u2019s cruiser and I must go<\/p>\n

off with you, because the only way the whore is rectified<\/p>\n

is when she becomes the wife. I will always love you<\/em>, but<\/p>\n

I wonder what else you\u2019d do if you really loved me like<\/p>\n

I thought you did. I hope you would let me keep my name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jacklin Farley   I will always love you, Burt Reynolds, even whilst clinging to the foot of the stairs leading into this now empty country parlor, in this now vacant farmhouse just outside the county limits of your well-intentioned, home-grown-American, damned near stupid conservative small town. 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