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   Will Dockery to General Zod   
   Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery   
   07 Jan 26 04:56:20   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.poems, alt.poetry   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   "General Zod"  wrote in message   
   > news:af7d0d6b-d1c9-40dc-9a63-eb3ee15f93e5@googlegroups.com...   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   >   
   > > Apple Montage   
   > >   
   > >  Sneaking around   
   > >  with Cousin Jenny,   
   > >  smoking menthol   
   > >  beyond the sheds.   
   > >   
   > >  Late summer vacation 1973   
   > >  in the backwoods of Tennessee.   
   > >   
   > >  To the right   
   > >  behind the barn   
   > >  were apple trees.   
   > >   
   > >  There were several   
   > >  of those trees   
   > >  and other trees   
   > >  behind them   
   > >  beyond a field   
   > >  and behind them, other trees.   
   > >   
   > >  Later, I stood near   
   > >  as a crowd   
   > >  watched Pops and my Uncle   
   > >  cooking apple butter;   
   > >  stirring the brown gunk,   
   > >  boiling in a huge black kettle.   
   > >   
   > >  I saw my father   
   > >  secretly pass   
   > >  a wine bottle   
   > >  to my Uncle Clarence.   
   > >   
   > >  I went from   
   > >  breathing cold mist   
   > >  out back behind the barn,   
   > >  to breathing   
   > >  the hot misty steam.   
   > >   
   > >  The air smelled of apple fumes   
   > >  and strong booze.   
   > >   
   > > -Will Dockery   
   > >   
   > > --------------------------------------------   
   > >   
   > > Here is the "Apple Montage" poem, for scrutiny and comment.   
   >   
   >  Good let's discuss this now and sort out Pen's lies....   
      
   Mainly his refusal to accept the fact that my poem is a montage in poetry form.   
      
   --   
   Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:   
   https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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