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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
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>>>>>> Archived at:
>>>>>> http://comments.poetry.arts.alt.groups.com.ru/196352-Re_Tuesday_with_Little_Spain_by_Will_Dockery
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>> Crimson on the napkins,
>>>>>> pink fuzz on the clover.
>>>>>> Maneuver to the left, and forward,
>>>>>> into a mud soaked future.
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>>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> -For more poems, type
>>>>>> http://www.dejanews.com/
>>>>>> into your browser's "Location" window. Press your "return" key.
>>>>>> Click on "Power Search" in the middle of the screen.  Next,
>>>>>> Type in:  roller...@earthlink.net    in the box that appears.
>>>>>> Click on "find" (the button to the right of the box).
>>>>>> -Or search using:  rolle...@idt.net
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>>>>>> Tuesday with Little Spain is copyright 1998 by Will Dockery
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>>>>>> -------------------------------------------------
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>>>>>> From the 1998 Archives.
>>>>>
>
>>>>> 23 years later, still a classic......
>
>>>>
>>>> Again, thanks.
>
>>> And another poem from that dark 1990s era...
>
>> Thanks again for the read.
>
>> :)
>
>
> Cool... cool...

Hello Zod, I hope you and Mike are having a great day.

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