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   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: To The Sea Angel / Will Dockery   
   10 Feb 26 22:20:34   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) posted:   
   > HarryLime wrote:   
   >> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>> mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   >>>> 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)   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> ***   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>> You brought the topic up, with the Team Monkey and Team Donkey   
   silliness.   
      
   > >>> "Monkey" has often been used as a racial slur.   
      
   Again, I didn't create the "Team Monkey":and "Team Donkey" stuff, I think it   
   was your side that began all that, Pendragon.   
      
   > Sometimes a raccoon is just a raccoon.   
      
   I agree, actually.   
      
   > *We are not the person who posted a racist post card to a mostly-Black   
   Facebook page.   
      
   Yet you're posting it here, knowing what is written on it.   
      
   HTH and HAND.   
      
   --   
   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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