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   Message 44,932 of 45,517   
   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: Poem. by Jack Kerouac   
   07 Feb 26 01:21:56   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) posted:   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   > > nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) wrote in   
   > > news:Dt6dnZHiu5Vk4hv0nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@giganews.com:   
   > >> Will Dockery wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> Poem   
   > >>   
   > >> Anyway the time has come to explain   
   > >> the Golden Eternity   
   > >> and how the iridescent paraphernalia of radiating candles   
   > >> ceases   
   > >> when meditation ceases   
   > >> because I know what it's like to die,   
   > >> to cease meditating, one day I died,   
   > >> I fainted actually, I was stooping smelling   
   > >> strapping flowers in the cosmos yard   
   > >> of my mother's cozy flower house   
   > >> in Auffinsham Shire, in Queens,   
   > >> and stood up fast taking deep breath,   
   > >> blood rushed from head, next thing I knew   
   > >> woke up flat on my back in grassy sun   
   > >> and had been out fine minutes.   
   > >>   
   > >> And I had seen the Golden Eternity.   
   > >> The Lamb was alone with the Lamb.   
   > >> The Babe was alone with the Baby Lamb.   
   > >> The Shroud was alone with the Golden Shroud.   
   > >>   
   > >> I was alone with God, who   
   > >> is God, who was me,   
   > >> who was All,   
   > >> he stood high on a hill   
   > >> overlooking Mexico City   
   > >> radiating messages   
   > >> out of a white Tiot   
   > >>   
   > >> - Jack Kerouac, 1958   
   > >>   
   > >> Great poetry from the one and only Jack Kerouac.   
   > >   
   > > There are at least 26 people living in the United States right now who   
   > > have the name "Jack Kerouac."   
   >   
   > That's amazing, I never looked it up.   
   >   
   > Thanks for that bit of trivia.[/quote]   
   >   
   > The lesson for the day is that neither William Dockery nor Jack Kerouac is   
   "the one and only."   
      
   Okay, so how many people named "NancyGene" are there?   
      
   Your name sounds somewhat unique.   
      
   > This is a response to the post seen at:   
   > http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=657887953#657887953   
      
   --   
   Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:   
   https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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