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From: tzod9964@gmail.com (General-Zod)
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Subject: Re: Tuesday with Little Spain  / Will Dockery
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 05:31:41 +0000
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Will Dockery wrote:

> Zod wrote:
>
>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>>> Tuesday with Little Spain  / a poem by Will Dockery
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>>> Archived at:
>>> http://comments.poetry.arts.alt.groups.com.ru/196352-Re_Tuesday_with_Little_Spain_by_Will_Dockery
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>>> From: Andrew Roller <roller...@earthlink.net>
>>> Subject: Tuesday with Little Spain  by Will Dockery
>>> Date: 1998/06/21
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>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
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>>>                                        Tuesday with Little Spain
>>>                                               by Will Dockery
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>>> And I am shoved back into this night life,
>>> well she said, she said, she said it was impossible.
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>>> There is a place, it smoulders, it is the past, dreamtime,
>>> wander these dark corridors of memory.
>>> I sleep so deep, I don't like to sleep,
>>> my dreams threaten to wash me away.
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>>> Floating in a sea of bad vibes, I do these things over and over,
>>> repentatively, feel regret but keep doing it over and over.
>>> Then the whole thing becomes a blur.
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>>> Grey and pasted, patched together with spackling
>>> and sheet rock mud, a disgusted perversion of humanity.
>>> During the decline and fall of poetry,
>>> in the summer of sardonic excess,
>>> I sat with Little Spain and felt her softness.
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>>> Still a sky poet, though tattered and glowing,
>>> brought down from Blue Territory,
>>> no longer in Blue Territory.
>>> I wandered by a cold river
>>> in the flaming copper land of summer.
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>>> This complete process of remaking we had,
>>> your mix of pales & shades,
>>> your, distinctive, mythic self, one distinct sing of your eyes...
>>> I must bitterly understand our fate,
>>> we were never meant to be,
>>> like lost in the mirror'd rooms of a crazy house.
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>>> Crimson on the napkins,
>>> pink fuzz on the clover.
>>> Maneuver to the left, and forward,
>>> into a mud soaked future.
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>>> Tuesday with Little Spain is copyright 1998 by Will Dockery
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>>> -------------------------------------------------
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>>> From the 1998 Archives.
>
>
>> A rare classic...
>
> Thanks again for reading and commenting, Zod.

Lovely poem