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   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: To The Sea Angel / Will Dockery   
   05 Feb 26 01:08:18   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Cujo DeSockpuppet  posted:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Not really, that's just your imagination.   
      
   > >> 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, as usual.   
   >   
   > That's Deliverance country, pervert. I'm shocked that you aren't out of   
   > the closet yet.   
      
   You're more ignorant than I thought, Kevin Fries.   
      
   😏   
      
   --   
   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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