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   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: Star Child Memory / Will Dockery   
   20 Feb 26 05:51:48   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) posted:   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   >   
   > >> Hector Heathcliff wrote:   
   > >> On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 5:43:25 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:   
   > >> Star Child Memory   
   > >>   
   > >> Snapshot of a moment   
   > >> an outdoor poetry reading   
   > >> in early Spring 1996.   
   > >> Glimmering stars   
   > >> and looming moon   
   > >> through the gloom.   
   > >>   
   > >> Passing through   
   > >> in that cavern   
   > >> of concrete, glass and brick   
   > >> off Broadway.   
   > >> I join the poetry reading   
   > >> already in progress.   
   > >>   
   > >> There's a hush in the air   
   > >> as we approach.   
   > >> Star Child and her friends   
   > >> standing with me   
   > >> on the sidewalk.   
   > >>   
   > >> Glimmering stars above us   
   > >> Springtime   
   > >> constellations.   
   > >> Poets sit in a circle   
   > >> in the alley   
   > >> behind Bazaar Earth.   
   > >>   
   > >> In those early days   
   > >> so late in the game.   
   > >>   
   > >> But I couldn't remain   
   > >> back then   
   > >> I had to keep on moving.   
   > >> I told them they couldn't get   
   > >> high enough   
   > >> to float with me.   
   > >>   
   > >> Star Child twinkled and tweaked   
   > >> skipping by me   
   > >> in that spangled night.   
   > >> Stopping at the parking meter   
   > >> waving goodbye.   
   > >>   
   > >> -Will Dockery   
   > >>   
   > >> --------------------------------------------   
   > >>   
   > >> Outstanding addition to the Shadowville Mythos, Doc....   
   > >>   
   > >> Thanks again for reading and commenting, we're in the process of   
   > >> adopting this   
   > >> story to music, at the studio.   
   > >>   
   > > We? And when will this happen, ? You're responding   
   > > to a post that is four years old now.   
   >   
   > In the year 2026, stay tuned.   
   >   
   >  😏   
   >   
   > Waiting with anticipation!   
      
   Thanks again for reading and commenting, MC.   
      
   > This is a response to the post seen at:   
   > http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=659908913#659908913   
      
   --   
   Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:   
   https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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