Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery) Newsgroups: alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.arts.poems Subject: Re: Shambles / Will Dockery Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:32:25 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <5d8570fa7b916590fef96b19bf7da09b@www.novabbs.com> References: <33ad6341-2434-4eac-b30a-5923bda2c155n@googlegroups.com> <651cc0316c86fb97946432bf9c1c3b59@news.novabbs.com> <6dd753e735b8b3955439fd5c310b7a57@news.novabbs.com> <3091f2569a02a9ec73c695f501520a0a@news.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2055071"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="Vf9CM7g99yqfGvzEHTw0bhrjcIfvzYBBhUuRma0rLuQ"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$oiFGLN8SBYkWRBS6OGDAdu8gnQuLLciYliKNei9IkfaCyQ/IJ1I9e X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Posting-User: acd0b3e3614eaa6f47211734e4cbca3bfd42bebc Bytes: 3094 Lines: 50 General-Zod wrote: > Will Dockery wrote: > >>>>>>> > ----------------------- >>>>>>> > Shambles >>>>>>> >>>>>>> > Yes, the "Richard Pryor" looking guy was somewhat interesting, >>>>>>> > except that he was so drunk he was drooling. >>>>>>> > He either thought I looked like Mark Twain or Gene Wilder, >>>>>>> > sitting on the bench on Broadway at Midnight, typing. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> > He seemed to think we were from the same home area, >>>>>>> > somewhere around Kentucky, >>>>>>> > and then North oats", >>>>>>> > all these in Carolina, >>>>>>> > where his family worked on "crab boats". >>>>>>> >>>>>>> > All these short stories and his 1970s comedy asides, >>>>>>> > the out of the side of his mouth political jabs and so on, >>>>>>> > were pretty entertaining, >>>>>>> > as I just sat there and typed, >>>>>>> > playing the white straight man type, >>>>>>> > like in Stir Crazy and Silver Streak, >>>>>>> > wild Einstein afro hair flapping in the breeze. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> > That went okay for a few minutes >>>>>>> > until Pryor knocked over my coffee, >>>>>>> > seemed to be embarrassed about that, >>>>>>> > and wandered away, >>>>>>> > on up the sidewalk. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> > Then when a crack hooker chick >>>>>>> > in real shambles came along, >>>>>>> > offered to blow me right there for five bucks, >>>>>>> > I decided that along with the chilly breeze on my back, >>>>>>> > perhaps it was time to pack it up for the night. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> > I wanted dark, I got dark. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> > -Will Dockery 2017 >>>>>>> > ------------------------ > > > Good day to you sir, being the poetry lover that i am i found this poem > to be of a certain dark beauty...! Hello there Zod, thanks again for the nod. 😏