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General-Zod wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>>>>>> > Irene Dämmerung
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > She gave me a rock
>>>>>>> > that she had hand painted
>>>>>>> > Irene Dämmerung
>>>>>>> > held my unrequited passion.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Irene had a gentle heart
>>>>>>> > I knew this when we
>>>>>>> > were first acquainted.
>>>>>>> > She wore a rabbit fur coat
>>>>>>> > right in fashion.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Her husband Twilight Joe
>>>>>>> > was always high rolling.
>>>>>>> > Joe had a cool hand like Sundance
>>>>>>> > on his bride's visage we all gazed.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > A man with the good smoke
>>>>>>> > that he was controlling.
>>>>>>> > Irene could catch men's eyes
>>>>>>> > even other girls were amazed.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > She'd paint little stones
>>>>>>> > designs she had created.
>>>>>>> > Traded her fur jacket to Tina
>>>>>>> > for a green felt one that was better.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > She took off with Joe Shannon
>>>>>>> > back down to Monticello.
>>>>>>> > The last thing we ever heard from her
>>>>>>> > was a sad letter.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > That Irene had walked in one day
>>>>>>> > to see Joe dead from pleasure.
>>>>>>> > Tied off arm and needle
>>>>>>> > Joe had overdosed on his treasure.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > -Will Dockery
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > (From the poetry series "Clifford's Blues", based on the people and
>>>>>>> > events
>>>>>>> > of Atlanta 1980-1983)
>>
>>>>> From the archives, for newer readers.
>>
>>>>> Comments and critique welcome.
>>
>> Indeed a lovely Fave....

Good afternoon, thanks again for the nod.

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