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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Tuesday with Little Spain  / Will Dockery
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General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>> Zod wrote:
>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>>>> Tuesday with Little Spain  / a poem by Will Dockery
>
>>>> Archived at:
>>>> http://comments.poetry.arts.alt.groups.com.ru/196352-Re_Tuesday_with_Little_Spain_by_Will_Dockery
>
>>>> From: Andrew Roller <roller...@earthlink.net>
>>>> Subject: Tuesday with Little Spain  by Will Dockery
>>>> Date: 1998/06/21
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>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
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>>>>                                        Tuesday with Little Spain
>>>>                                               by Will Dockery
>
>>>> And I am shoved back into this night life,
>>>> well she said, she said, she said it was impossible.
>
>>>> There is a place, it smoulders, it is the past, dreamtime,
>>>> wander these dark corridors of memory.
>>>> I sleep so deep, I don't like to sleep,
>>>> my dreams threaten to wash me away.
>
>>>> Floating in a sea of bad vibes, I do these things over and over,
>>>> repentatively, feel regret but keep doing it over and over.
>>>> Then the whole thing becomes a blur.
>
>>>> Grey and pasted, patched together with spackling
>>>> and sheet rock mud, a disgusted perversion of humanity.
>>>> During the decline and fall of poetry,
>>>> in the summer of sardonic excess,
>>>> I sat with Little Spain and felt her softness.
>
>>>> Still a sky poet, though tattered and glowing,
>>>> brought down from Blue Territory,
>>>> no longer in Blue Territory.
>>>> I wandered by a cold river
>>>> in the flaming copper land of summer.
>
>>>> This complete process of remaking we had,
>>>> your mix of pales & shades,
>>>> your, distinctive, mythic self, one distinct sing of your eyes...
>>>> I must bitterly understand our fate,
>>>> we were never meant to be,
>>>> like lost in the mirror'd rooms of a crazy house.
>
>>>> Crimson on the napkins,
>>>> pink fuzz on the clover.
>>>> Maneuver to the left, and forward,
>>>> into a mud soaked future.
>
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>
>>>> Tuesday with Little Spain is copyright 1998 by Will Dockery
>
>>>> -------------------------------------------------
>
>>>> From the 1998 Archives.
>
>
>>> A rare classic...
>
>> Thanks again for reading and commenting, Zod.
>
> Being the poetry lover that I am, it was not a problem....

Good evening my friend.