Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery) Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems,alt.arts.poetry.comments Subject: Re: Sunglass / Will Dockery Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:42:02 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <4e1ee5afb4497720501159c3ae7c5bc2@www.novabbs.com> References: <92ae386bf6eb616e3efb5c24a257146a@news.novabbs.com> <0bf9907b2b69b7535cf7a1b9c11c5f0a@news.novabbs.com> <01e0ca33a4b63fbeccea8d217d421bd0@www.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="828857"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="Vf9CM7g99yqfGvzEHTw0bhrjcIfvzYBBhUuRma0rLuQ"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$dt1Le8K0zSGk6N0/.BJzTex2dorv6VoABe1LCy2GANL0db5iXDK1q X-Rslight-Posting-User: acd0b3e3614eaa6f47211734e4cbca3bfd42bebc X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 9:56:40 +0000, George J. Dance wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 8:56:22 +0000, W.Dockery wrote: > >> General-Zod wrote: >>> Will Dockery wrote: >>> >>>>>>>> Sunglass >>>> >>>>>>>> This battered old shell looks like a death mask. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Lucky or not I shall wear it as I walk into Phenix City. Though I >>>>>>>> cheated in my gambling I wound up broke anyway. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> And I come, and I pay the zombie whores and walking dead. While the >>>>>>>> dark lady in sunglasses takes the halo from his clay head. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> One more trip over that bridge to the kissing booth. Where there's >>>>>>>> smoke there may be fire and this time I got burned. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I walk this beach at midnight like a zen dharma beach bum. And I am >>>>>>>> saved, and I turn. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I watch the drunken poets, and my lawyer. While the dark lady in >>>>>>>> sunglasses takes the halo from his clay head. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -Will Dockery >>> >>>>> >>> >>>> It is working and the poem is another classic.... >> >> Hello there my friend, hope you're doing well and your family as well. >> >> Have a safe trip home. > > Zod, we miss you on aapc (and in the Dancehall). > > Will, Im glad you bumped this; it's always worth a read. I suppose the > quickest way to say what I think of it is to note that I included it in > your Selected Poem; and to add that, while it can certainly be read on > its own, I think it reads works best as an integral part of the extended > series that makes up Part II of that book. > > https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/Selected_Poems_by_Will_Dockery Thanks again George, good selection.