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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: CoOpBop by Will Dockery
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:22:38 +0000
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Victor H. wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>>> Another early one from the archives, first posted in May 1999:
>
>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.poems/rQZx1xcvaI0/XBpISpIa9V0J
>
>>> CoOpBop
>>>                                       by Will Dockery
>
>>>         I stood on the stage
>>>         there are no words.
>>>         The music surrounded me
>>>         I have nothing left to say.
>>>         All I could speak of
>>>         was sailing away
>>>         putting it all away.
>>>         They surround me
>>>         they played music.
>>>         I looked into their eyes
>>>         do they
>>>         do they hold the magic.
>>>         All I can see is darkness
>>>         there are no words.
>>>         Nothing but this joke,
>>>         I stood on the stage.
>>>         These words are nothing
>>>         I am nothing.
>>>         Nothing here nothing nothing.
>>>         No thing.
>>>         The source of laughter
>>>         further down.
>>>         All I could speak of
>>>         is this wish to fade away.
>
>>>         -Will Dockery
>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>> -For more poems, type
>>> http://www.deja.com/
>>> into your browser's "Location" window. Press your "return" key.
>>> Click on "Power Search" in the middle of the screen.
>>> Find the box labelled "Main Archive".
>>> Change "Main Archive" to "Complete Archive".
>
>>> Next, do you see a blank box labelled "Power Search" ?
>>> Type in:  roll...@earthlink.net   in the blank box on the screen
>>>    that has "Power Search" written next to it.
>>> Click on "find" (the button to the right of the box).
>
>>> -Or search using:  roll...@idt.net  or  opb...@yahoo.com
>
>>> CoOpBop is copyright 1999 by Will Dockery
>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>> (From the rec.arts.poems archives 1999.)
>
>
> Truly a golden oldie...!

Indeed it is.

🙂