Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!news.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: Tuesday with Little Spain / Will Dockery Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:37:05 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <06efdafaf31b909e9547b637e9faed4f@www.novabbs.com> References: <4f174532-3ffe-4e77-97a4-b82d34bebfa4@googlegroups.com> <4af57226f34cc9ed1287bbd3a28c8d9e$1@www.novabbs.com> <72f61b6b991201e4ff290a373140c527@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="3296027"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="Vf9CM7g99yqfGvzEHTw0bhrjcIfvzYBBhUuRma0rLuQ"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$gk9gRFFGsdUHhRVzNd9ODu0F/.mHBQOMNnHgoDbnsQkQJzUO7AL8u X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Posting-User: acd0b3e3614eaa6f47211734e4cbca3bfd42bebc On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 21:17:41 +0000, General-Zod wrote: > Will Dockery wrote: > >> Zod wrote: >> >>> Will Dockery wrote: >>> >>>> Tuesday with Little Spain / a poem by Will Dockery >> >>>> Archived at: >>>> http://comments.poetry.arts.alt.groups.com.ru/196352-Re_Tuesday_with_Little_Spain_by_Will_Dockery >> >>>> From: Andrew Roller >>>> Subject: Tuesday with Little Spain by Will Dockery >>>> Date: 1998/06/21 >>>> Message-ID: <358C65B4.78A2@earthlink.net>#1/1 >>>> X-Deja-AN: 364670631 >>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >>>> Mime-Version: 1.0 >>>> Reply-To: roller...@earthlink.net >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >>>> Organization: Roller Publications >>>> Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems >> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> PROBLEMS? Please try viewing this with Netscape Navigator. >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>>> 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. >> >>>> 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. >> >>>> 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. >> >>>> 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. >> >>>> 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. >> >>>> Crimson on the napkins, >>>> pink fuzz on the clover. >>>> Maneuver to the left, and forward, >>>> into a mud soaked future. >> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> -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 >> >>>> Tuesday with Little Spain is copyright 1998 by Will Dockery >> >>>> ------------------------------------------------- >> >>>> From the 1998 Archives. >> >> >>> A rare classic... >> >> Thanks again for reading and commenting, Zod. > > It is a fave > > -- Good morning, my friend.