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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Stone, Stone / Will Dockery (1999)
Date: Sun, 25 May 2025 21:07:24 +0000
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Rocky Stoneberg wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>> Zod wrote:
>
>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>>>> On Wednesday, May 5, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Andrew Roller wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> >       Visit me at:  http://home.earthlink.net/~roller666/index.html
>>>>>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Stone, Stone
>>>>>> > by Will Dockery
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Stone, Stone (weekenders)
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > In Mr. Stoneman's neighborhood hone,
>>>>>> > he used to weep at flowers ---.
>>>>>> > Rod McOwen threw his girlfriend of 2 years & 27 days
>>>>>> > against a wall, he knew the scarlet ibis disapproved.
>>>>>> > A roaring fireball over Edgewood, the Black & Tans march,
>>>>>> > tunneling abounded, Rod roared off in a blue Volaire.
>>>>>> > He was convinced his futility was the worst one of all.
>>>>>> > Jerry curled James Collier in hot pursuit,
>>>>>> > everybody knew Rod would never outrun that red roadrunner.
>>>>>> > Roadrunner chases the outlaw poet,
>>>>>> > he's a poet and a man, and he gets no respect,
>>>>>> > but he knows he's gotta pay anyway.
>>>>>> > He knows the Bl;ack & Tans should go back to Mexico,
>>>>>> > that he should teach those downtown nazis
>>>>>> > after all the other things they did to him personally,
>>>>>> > they slandered great Parnell as well.
>>>>>> > Stone People fight you like human beings.
>>>>>> > Lady Elaine collects wildflowers, as we stroll to the bar,
>>>>>> > we are away from Rod McOwen, far, very far.
>>>>>> > Hey, it's an original kind of day,
>>>>>> > but these thoughts are not, la,la.
>>>>>> > Downtown Atlanta on the t.v. I see they got a new police station,
>>>>>> > Shadowville is in my head on this mellow spring night.
>>>>>> > Walking down Macon Road with Lady Elaine,
>>>>>> > she's wearing my aged black denim jacket,
>>>>>> > we're arguing about the moon.
>>>>>> > In my teal grean hat and fag bag, pacing back & forth,
>>>>>> > looking at the purple pansies.
>>>>>> > Along came some officer with a telephone,
>>>>>> > we talked of castles made of lasagna.
>>>>>> > The question of armagideon is: which armagideon?
>>>>>> > Some lady's inadvertant April fool's joke.
>>>>>> > Tiny demon at the bar of midtown,
>>>>>> > the name of the game is the same, grim prostitution,
>>>>>> > extorting tips and bad karma like hellaway.
>>>>>> > We are far away at Bobby's Bar,
>>>>>> > discussing ravens, rainbows and the color of dinosaurs.
>>>>>> > I speculate that they may have had feathers...
>>>>>> > she asked who decided they had to be green?
>>>>>> > In the Hall of Heroes, we have a great juke box.
>>>>>> > Elaine's beer has a circular ripple,
>>>>>> > made by the music and vibrating bar.
>>>>>> > She's explaining about her Grandaddy Long ---
>>>>>> > I heard about his pet bear when he was in Alaska,
>>>>>> > and how he knew Billy the Kid in Missura.
>>>>>> > Best jukebox in Shadowville --- Bobby's Bar,
>>>>>> > Elaine gives me a tiny hug for luck.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > -Will Dockery / 1999
>>>>>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> > -For more poems, type
>>>>>> > http://www.dejanews.com/
>>>>>> > into your browser’s “Location” window. Press your “return” key.
>>>>>> > Click on “Power Search” in the middle of the screen.
>>>>>> > Find the box labelled “Main Archive”.
>>>>>> > Change “Main Archive” to “Complete Archive”.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Next, do you see a blank box labelled “Power Search” ?
>>>>>> > Type in:  roller666@earthlink.net   in the blank box on the screen
>>>>>> >    that has “Power Search” written next to it.
>>>>>> > Click on “find” (the button to the right of the box).
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > -Or search using:  roller39@idt.net
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Stone, Stone is copyright 1999 by Will Dockery
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.poems/VoeZLoQmpPE/NAXkH3YZJ_cJ
>
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>>>> From the archives, May 5th 1999, my early days of Usenet.
>
>>> Quite a good, interesting and obscure classic from the archive
>>> vaults....
>
>> The late grunge era, brings back a lot of memories.
>
>
> Indeed, I was still in the Navy during those early days of 1990....

Good evening, Rocky.