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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Sunglass / Will Dockery
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 22:43:02 +0000
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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
>
> A bona fide classic poem..!

Thanks again for the nod, Zod.

😏