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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Sunglass / Will Dockery
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:42:02 +0000
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 9:56:40 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 8:56:22 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:
>
>> General-Zod wrote:
>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>> Sunglass
>>>>
>>>>>>>> This battered old shell looks like a death mask.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Lucky or not I shall wear it as I walk into Phenix City. Though I
>>>>>>>> cheated in my gambling I wound up broke anyway.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And I come, and I pay the zombie whores and walking dead. While the
>>>>>>>> dark lady in sunglasses takes the halo from his clay head.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> One more trip over that bridge to the kissing booth. Where there's
>>>>>>>> smoke there may be fire and this time I got burned.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I walk this beach at midnight like a zen dharma beach bum. And I am
>>>>>>>> saved, and I turn.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I watch the drunken poets, and my lawyer. While the dark lady in
>>>>>>>> sunglasses takes the halo from his clay head.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -Will Dockery
>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>> It is working and the poem is another classic....
>>
>> Hello there my friend, hope you're doing well and your family as well.
>>
>> Have a safe trip home.
>
> Zod, we miss you on aapc (and in the Dancehall).
>
> Will, Im glad you bumped this; it's always worth a read. I suppose the
> quickest way to say what I think of it is to note that I included it in
> your Selected Poem; and to add that, while it can certainly be read on
> its own, I think it reads works best as an integral part of the extended
> series that makes up Part II of that book.
>
> https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/Selected_Poems_by_Will_Dockery

Thanks again George, good selection.