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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: On Seventh Avenue / Lisa Scarboro
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 12:57:28 +0000
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General-Zod wrote:

> On Sunday, July 19, 1998 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Andrew Roller wrote:
>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>         PROBLEMS?  Please try viewing this with Netscape Navigator.
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>                                           On Seventh Avenue
>>>>                                             by Lisa Scarboro
>>>>
>>>>   Here we are again...
>>>>   apart.
>>>>   I don't know where you are.
>>>>   I can only wonder
>>>>   and the waiting is endless
>>>>   here on Seventh Avenue
>>>>   and every car sounds like yours
>>>>   and the cigarettes burn
>>>>   and the blue smoke drifts up and away
>>>>   and out of sight like you are.
>>>>   You've got Jack with you riding shotgun
>>>>   and you're on the road again just like old times
>>>>   and I'm sitting here with pen and paper
>>>>   writing this just to have something to do
>>>>   just like old times on Seventh Avenue..
>>>>   Who did you keep warm last night?
>>>>   It wasn't me is all I know.
>>>>   I heard they're predicting rain today,
>>>>   but I think rain came yesterday,
>>>>   red and barefooted under a hot Georgia sun.
>>>>   Wouldn't take very long to reach Alabama
>>>>   unless it moves north.
>>>>   Is it gloomy everywhere today,
>>>>   or just on Seventh Avenue?
>>>>   I'd walk away from everything if I could,
>>>>   but a million little cords of responsibility have
>>>>   me tied down here
>>>>   and so I light another cigarette
>>>>   and try to ignore the fact that the clocks are
>>>>   acting strangely.
>>>>   Is time standing still everywhere,
>>>>   or just on Seventh Avenue?
>>>>   And I have to forgive the ignorant cruelty of
>>>>   people driving past my house
>>>>   (because they don't know)
>>>>   how I'm sitting here listening for
>>>>   the sound of a motor stopping
>>>>   and a car door shutting
>>>>   and footsteps on the porch
>>>>   and a key turning in the lock
>>>>   and a voice saying "hey there",
>>>>   I'd give almost anything
>>>>   for all that to be true,
>>>>   but as yet it hasn't happened
>>>>   here on Seventh Avenue.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> -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.  Next,
>>>> Type in:  roller666@earthlink.net    in the box that appears.
>>>> Click on "find" (the button to the right of the box).
>>>> -Or search using:  roller39@idt.net
>>>>
>>>> On Seventh Avenue is copyright 1998 by Lisa Scarboro
>
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>
> Oustanding read from Lisa S...

I hope she's feeling better.

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