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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Star Child Memory / Will Dockery
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 18:56:21 +0000
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On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 18:03:43 +0000, MummyChunk wrote:

>> Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 22:22:14 +0000, MummyChunk wrote:
>>
>>> Will-Dockery wrote:
>>> Hector Heathcliff wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 5:43:25 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>
>>> Star Child Memory
>>>
>>> Snapshot of a moment
>>> an outdoor poetry reading
>>> in early Spring 1996.
>>> Glimmering stars
>>> and looming moon
>>> through the gloom.
>>>
>>> Passing through
>>> in that cavern
>>> of concrete, glass and brick
>>> off Broadway.
>>> I join the poetry reading
>>> already in progress.
>>>
>>> There's a hush in the air
>>> as we approach.
>>> Star Child and her friends
>>> standing with me
>>> on the sidewalk.
>>>
>>> Glimmering stars above us
>>> Springtime
>>> constellations.
>>> Poets sit in a circle
>>> in the alley
>>> behind Bazaar Earth.
>>>
>>> In those early days
>>> so late in the game.
>>>
>>> But I couldn't remain
>>> back then
>>> I had to keep on moving.
>>> I told them they couldn't get
>>> high enough
>>> to float with me.
>>>
>>> Star Child twinkled and tweaked
>>> skipping by me
>>> in that spangled night.
>>> Stopping at the parking meter
>>> waving goodbye.
>>>
>>> -Will Dockery
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> Draft post, comments and suggestions welcomed for the upcoming re-write.
>>>
>>> :)
>>>
>>> Outstanding addition to the Shadowville Mythos, Doc....
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks again for reading and commenting, we're in the process of
>>> adopting this
>>> story to music, at the studio.
>>>
>>>
>>> We? And when will this happen, ? You're responding
>>> to a post that is four years old now.
>>>
>>>
>>> In the year 2025, stay tuned.
>>>
>>> 😏
>>>
>>> Waiting with anticipation!
>>>
>>>
>>> This is a response to the post seen at:
>>> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=659908913#659908913
>>
>> The instrumtal guitar part for the song, lyrics will be adapted from my
>> Star Child Memory poem:
>>
>> https://youtube.com/shorts/LiMdyP7QniY?si=AOAgMdGZc_kHPHu9
>
>
>
> Who is playing the guitar there?

Here's probably my best collaboration with Brian Mallard, "On Mulberry
Drive":

https://youtu.be/kE1pZ14gy4c?si=y3PB65ovbUmvNWVp

> This is a response to the post seen at:
> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=659908913#659908913

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