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   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: To The Sea Angel / Will Dockery   
   04 Feb 26 21:27:01   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   > Will-Dockery wrote:   
   >> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>> Will-Dockery wrote:   
   >   
   > >>> To the Sea Angel   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Riptide waves,   
   > >>> there goes the sea angel,   
   > >>> right above the waves.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> These mystery years,   
   > >>> where would I be without them?   
   > >>> What if I'd stayed happy?   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Years lost,   
   > >>> these last few I've played catch up,   
   > >>> drifting from the shore.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Barnacles on an olive shell,   
   > >>> brain choral in my mind.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Instrumental tune,   
   > >>> made by the incoming waves.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> I tossed a starfish back in,   
   > >>> watched it twirl away,   
   > >>> and thought of you.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> -Will Dockery (1997)   
   > >>   
   > >> I'd always assumed your "sea angel" was a girl.   
   > >   
   > > Again, that's correct.   
   >   
   > A subconscious association   
      
   *Yours* you mean.   
      
   --   
   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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