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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Shambles / Will Dockery
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:32:25 +0000
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General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>>>>>>> > -----------------------
>>>>>>> > Shambles
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > Yes, the "Richard Pryor" looking guy was somewhat interesting,
>>>>>>> > except that he was so drunk he was drooling.
>>>>>>> > He either thought I looked like Mark Twain or Gene Wilder,
>>>>>>> > sitting on the bench on Broadway at Midnight, typing.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > He seemed to think we were from the same home area,
>>>>>>> > somewhere around Kentucky,
>>>>>>> > and then North oats",
>>>>>>> > all these in Carolina,
>>>>>>> > where his family worked on "crab boats".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > All these short stories and his 1970s comedy asides,
>>>>>>> > the out of the side of his mouth political jabs and so on,
>>>>>>> > were pretty entertaining,
>>>>>>> > as I just sat there and typed,
>>>>>>> > playing the white straight man type,
>>>>>>> > like in Stir Crazy and Silver Streak,
>>>>>>> > wild Einstein afro hair flapping in the breeze.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > That went okay for a few minutes
>>>>>>> > until Pryor knocked over my coffee,
>>>>>>> > seemed to be embarrassed about that,
>>>>>>> > and wandered away,
>>>>>>> > on up the sidewalk.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > Then when a crack hooker chick
>>>>>>> > in real shambles came along,
>>>>>>> > offered to blow me right there for five bucks,
>>>>>>> > I decided that along with the chilly breeze on my back,
>>>>>>> > perhaps it was time to pack it up for the night.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > I wanted dark, I got dark.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > -Will Dockery 2017
>>>>>>> > ------------------------
>
>
> Good day to you sir, being the poetry lover that i am i found this poem
> to be of a certain dark beauty...!


Hello there Zod, thanks again for the nod.

😏