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   WillDockery to CujoDeSockpuppet   
   Re: "Corso and His Ladies" / Will Docker   
   15 Dec 25 20:29:48   
   
   From: noreply@pugleaf.net.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:17:44 -0000 (UTC), CujoDeSockpuppet wrote:   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   >   
   > >>>> "Corso and His Ladies"   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Hanging out in Atlanta   
   > >>>> yesterday   
   > >>>> with my friend Clifford.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Cliff is the "Great Rememberer"   
   > >>>> of our scene   
   > >>>> circa 1980-1983.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> These new poems   
   > >>>> will be the permanent record   
   > >>>> of those times   
   > >>>> from the memory he shares.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> He says   
   > >>>> "Hey man, remember   
   > >>>> that former boxer   
   > >>>> my friend   
   > >>>> we'll call him Corso   
   > >>>> because of his resemblance   
   > >>>> to a famous poet?"   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Yes, I do, I say.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> "You let him stay   
   > >>>> at your place for a while   
   > >>>> him and his two girlfriends   
   > >>>> the stripper   
   > >>>> and the skinny girl..."   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Yes, I wonder where they   
   > >>>> went off to, Cliff?   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> "No idea, man   
   > >>>> haven't seen either of them   
   > >>>> since that time...   
   > >>>> Jeeze   
   > >>>> That was 36 years ago, Doc."   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> At least...   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> I remember Corso well   
   > >>>> he was only around   
   > >>>> for a couple of weeks   
   > >>>> but I will never forget him   
   > >>>> or his two ladies   
   > >>>> whatever their names are.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> -Will Dockery   
      
   [Trolling and name-calling removed.]   
      
   > See what happens   
      
   When two obsessed and malicious trolls get in a tizzy over you?   
      
   Yes, I'm well aware this is Usenet, trolls come with the territory.   
      
   And so it goes.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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