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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Looked All Over / Will Dockery (1983)
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 07:36:14 +0000
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Roger Delaney wrote:
>> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>>> Looked All Over
>>>
>>> Walked through the rain
>>> to the telephone
>>> it was cold outside
>>> winter
>>> you know
>>> so I knew
>>> it would be this way.
>>>
>>> I was looking out
>>> that busted up window
>>> and knew
>>> that the phone call
>>> was needed
>>> but it was cold outside
>>> and raining.
>>>
>>> Got blown
>>> by that misty rain
>>> driven off days
>>> to find her
>>> but she was
>>> as missing as possible.
>>>
>>> Tried every place
>>> I could think of
>>> which in hindsight
>>> was not that many.
>>> I forget sometimes
>>> just how big a city can be.
>>> She was missing
>>> Possibly insane.
>>>
>>> I even talked with her dad
>>> who said nothing.
>>> I looked all over
>>> couldn't see
>>> the forest for the trees.
>>> I looked all over
>>> a frozen wall of emotions
>>> between then and me.
>>> I looked all over
>>> but it was actually over
>>> before I even began.
>>>
>>> Heated up a can of soup
>>> in the apartment.
>>> Stirred in some
>>> bizarre leftovers.
>>> There was
>>> a knock on my door.
>>> It was Berg
>>> who was cackling and crazed
>>> laughing about somebody
>>> who had given him a ride.
>>>
>>> I had to go to the telephone
>>> into the rain
>>> to try and find her.
>>>
>>> I talked to the police
>>> who could only speak of death.
>>> I looked all over
>>> looked up to the sky
>>> as the rain came down.
>>> I looked all over
>>> watched the searchlights
>>> at the used car lot.
>>> I looked all over
>>> would have been nice,
>>> to know
>>> what her family knew.
>>>
>>> -Will Dockery 1983
>>
>> Interesting new site for poetry posting......
>
> Try Imagur:
>
> https://imgur.com/gallery/o0h5vZC
>
> https://imgur.com/gallery/yk48D4f

Thanks for the heads up, Zod.