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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Suzy Tomorrow, by Zod
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:04:32 +0000
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Zod wrote:
>
>
> Suzy Tomorrow
>
> Long time ago Suzy Q.
> when I was infatuated with you.
> Carved your name on the park bench with a sigh
> across the street from Grand Island High.
> How many years I am hard pressed
> to make a second guess....
>
> I sip some wine by this camp fire
> so I babble as Mike plays his lyre.
> I recite this poem
> as is the norm.
> Continue on in my fascination
> Suzy Q. smiles
> I can see for 1,014 miles.
>
> Take a left at Buffalo
> on any given Saturday.
> Out Second Avenue
> then to the Falls for a view.
> Then like a hot rod race bound
> roaring down I-190 to downtown
> to get a last few beers
> feeling no fears.
>
> Goodbye never was completed
> Suzy Q. was never mistreated
> from all those forty years
> I could have wept some tears
> When your folks moved on down
> to the far side of town.
>
> --Zod
>
> ******************************

Good morning, haven't seen this one in a while, one of your better
poetry efforts.

🙂