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   Message 44,873 of 45,517   
   Cujo DeSockpuppet to Will Dockery   
   Re: To The Sea Angel / Will Dockery   
   04 Feb 26 21:45:52   
   
   From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   Will Dockery  wrote in   
   news:1770240082-3274@newsgrouper.org:   
      
   >   
   > mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) wrote in   
   > news:FuidnT9X2fAfNB70nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com:   
   >> 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.   
   >> >   
   >> > Yet you posted a romantic shot of you and P.D. Wilson sharing a   
   >> > sunset moment on the beach as an illustration for you poem.   
   >> >   
      
   >> A subconscious association, no doubt... but nonetheless telling.   
      
   >> Down in Columbus they separate the men from the boys with crowbars.   
      
   > No, that's all in your imagination,cash usual.   
      
   That's Deliverance country, pervert. I'm shocked that you aren't out of   
   the closet yet.   
      
   --   
   "The fact that it doesn't apply to the poem is of little consequence to   
   you, because your poems don't have a literary basis, because you're   
   functionally illiterate and haven't got a clue as to what a poem is." -   
   Little Willie Douchebag gets another asskicking from Pendragon   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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