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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Spinning Swiftly -- poem by Zod
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 09:56:15 +0000
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Faraway Star wrote:

> On Friday, November 17, 2023 at 6:49:06 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> Zod wrote:
>>
>>> Spinning Swiftly
>>
>>> Sprained ankle
>>> stumbled
>>> over the tracks.
>>
>>> Dark demon
>>> in a 24 ounce tin.
>>
>>> She lifts her kickers
>>> tomorrow's raging
>>> headache
>>> is all that remains.
>>
>>> Murrowed gill people
>>> on the lake shore
>>> at backwater
>>> Goat Rock Damn.
>>
>>> Without any special
>>> dispensation
>>> by the bog
>>> still running from the Mob.
>>
>>> All these nights
>>> of nothing
>>> but
>>> undercover dollars.
>>
>>> It was sold
>>> down the line
>>> awaiting my soul
>>> looking for a number
>>> or nookie.
>>
>>> Forever to prey
>>> pray
>>> to the gods of rock and roll.
>>
>>> Waiting
>>> wait in silence
>>> the other old man
>>> is dying.
>>
>>> By General Zod
>>
>>> ***
>> I like his poem, it goes all over the place, sure, but that's not
>> unusual in poetry, as you know.
>
> Hi there and again.... I thank ye kindly...!!

Good morning again Zod, another of my favorite poems from you.