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   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   > 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 used a racial slur to refer to me   
   >   
   > Dockery: You're a white guy, right?   
   >   
   > That you would immediately jump to the conclusion that "monkey" = "black,"   
   is telling.   
      
   Since I *have* watched some of the recent news on Trump and the Obama satire,   
   that's the obvious take away.   
      
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