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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>>> Irene Dämmerung
>>>
>>> She gave me a rock
>>> that she had hand painted
>>> Irene Dämmerung
>>> held my unrequited passion.
>>>
>>> Irene had a gentle heart
>>> I knew this when we
>>> were first acquainted.
>>> She wore a rabbit fur coat
>>> right in fashion.
>>>
>>> Her husband Twilight Joe
>>> was always high rolling.
>>> Joe had a cool hand like Sundance
>>> on his bride's visage we all gazed.
>>>
>>> A man with the good smoke
>>> that he was controlling.
>>> Irene could catch men's eyes
>>> even other girls were amazed.
>>>
>>> She'd paint little stones
>>> designs she had created.
>>> Traded her fur jacket to Tina
>>> for a green felt one that was better.
>>>
>>> She took off with Joe Shannon
>>> back down to Monticello.
>>> The last thing we ever heard from her
>>> was a sad letter.
>>>
>>> That Irene had walked in one day
>>> to see Joe dead from pleasure.
>>> Tied off arm and needle
>>> Joe had overdosed on his treasure.
>>>
>>> -Will Dockery
>>>
>>> (From the poetry series "Clifford's Blues", based on the people and
>>> events
>>> of Atlanta 1980-1983)
>
> Good day, quite a fave....

Thanks again.