Norman White and Nome Poem

Norman White and Nome Poem

Interview transcript

Nome Poem: okay, you, my mother, and her sister, and her husband Ben, y’all went to a restaurant to get some food.
Norman White: Oh yeah.
Nome Poem: And you put a diamond in your head, in a towel, and pretended you were from a foreign nation.
Norman White: yes, and I couldn’t speak any English. I said (gibberish) So another lady sitting over across the restaurant, she heard me talking, and she came over to the table, and she said, “I know this is a God-sent man!”
She started talking something crazy, to me.
Nome Poem: What’d you say?
Norman White: I said (gibberish) So we really had some fun there.
Nome Poem: You could have started a religion.
Norman White: I could have, probably.
Nome Poem: We could’ve been rich.
Norman White: Yeah (laughs)
Nome Poem: But we’re happy.