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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Nothing But Pain / Will Dockery (1999 poem)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:56:02 +0000
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General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> Zod wrote:
>
>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>>>> From my Drafts file:
>
>>>> Below is re-posted an example of my poetry that was posted on Usenet,
>>>> specifically rec.arts.poems in the 1990s. Here is a link to the original
>>>> thread from May 18th 1999, which can be found at rec.arts.poems. Here's
>>>> a
>>>> poem of mine I found at random, from May 18th 1999, an example of my
>>>> poetry
>>>> that was posted on Usenet, specifically rec.arts.poems in the 1990s:
>
>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.poems/xhjqRmh2Daw/mwcsICXx3BAJ
>
>>>> On Tuesday, May 18, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Andrew Roller wrote:
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>       Visit me at:  http://home.earthlink.net/~roller666/index.html
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>                                      Nothing but pain.
>>>>>                                       by Will Dockery
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>          No sea deep enough,
>>>>>          no dark black enough.
>>>>>          No death painless,
>>>>>          no resurrection coming.
>>>>>
>>>>>          Open myself up,
>>>>>          I see twisted roots.
>>>>>          What has happened,
>>>>>          what will happen,
>>>>>          down to the end,
>>>>>          and down deeper.
>>>>>
>>>>>          No sea black enough,
>>>>>          no dark deep enough.
>>>>>          Sleep not final,
>>>>>          dreams to awake,
>>>>>          to this terrible lie.
>>>>>
>>>>>          I know. Nothing but pain.
>>>>>          Darkness and pain.
>>>>>          I know.
>>>>>          On and on it remains,
>>>>>          it's all so simple,
>>>>>          nothing but a grim heart.
>>>>>
>>>>>          -Will Dockery
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> -For more poems, type
>>>>> http://www.deja.com/
>>>>> into your browser's "Location" window. Press your "return" key.
>>>>> Click on "Power Search" in the middle of the screen.
>>>>> Find the box labelled "Main Archive".
>>>>> Change "Main Archive" to "Complete Archive".
>>>>>
>>>>> Next, do you see a blank box labelled "Power Search" ?
>>>>> Type in:  roller666@earthlink.net   in the blank box on the screen
>>>>>    that has "Power Search" written next to it.
>>>>> Click on "find" (the button to the right of the box).
>>>>>
>>>>> -Or search using:  roller39@idt.net  or  opbop1@yahoo.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Nothing but pain is copyright 1999 by Will Dockery
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>>>> Okay, this poem is from 1999, the first example of about a dozen of my
>>>> poems
>>>> posted to Usenet of the 1990s.
>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>>> A true golden oldie from the Doc...
>
>
>> Those were some dark days.
>
> Having anther read, and it is a good read..

Thanks again for reading and commenting, Zod.