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   >>> He was seeing a lot of "pretty lights" back in those days.   
   >> That's good because he couldn't pay the utility bills.   
   >   
   > Lol. I hadn't that of that!   
   >   
   >>>>> Are you telling the unidentified "you" (whose life had passed --   
   >>>>> implying that they had died) to wait?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "Wait for Me" - Hall and Oates   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm not familiar with that one (but please don't post a link).   
   >> Good song.  You must have missed the 80s altogether.   
   >   
   > Mostly.  I listened to The Stray Cats, Crystal Gayle, Billy Joel and   
   > Total Eclipse of the Heart.   
   >   
   >   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Are you telling yourself to wait -- as your train of thought jumps   
   >>>>> tracks?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "Then I'm willing to wait for it.   
   >>>> I'm willing to wait for it." - "Hamilton"   
   >>>   
   >>> I had to google that one.   
   >> Another dueling reference.   
   >   
   > Really?  It's apparently I line from the Broadway show "Hamilton."   
   > (Although spoken by Aaron Burr.)   
   >   
   >>>>> Or are you telling the reader, who you haven't been addressing, to wait?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "Wait Mister Postman"   
   >>>   
   >>> Now that one I know!   
   >> Girl groups are fun to listen to!   
   >   
   > Agreed.   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> And why use "portion" rather than "part"?  It just sounds false (like a   
   >>>>> child attempting to use "big words").   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Dockery was merely a 22-year-old, just entering the 5th grade. He knew   
   >>>> few words.   
   >>>   
   >>> And now at 65 (give or take), he's increased is vocabulary to   
   >>> approximately 100 words. Go Donkey!   
   >> Didn't Koko the Gorilla know more words than that?   
   >   
   > I believe so... but gorillas are more intelligent than Donkeys.   
   >   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>>>> And just what part of what finish are you referring to?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> He meant Finnish.   
   >>>   
   >>> So he and his friends and family were carving up a Finnish exchange   
   >>> student?   
   >> That was Antii.   
   >   
   > I'm glad someone was able to make good use of him.   
   >   
   >>>>> Everything has suddenly become real (even though you had given no   
   >>>>> previous indication that it was false, and even though you've failed to   
   >>>>> even hint at what "real" and "everything" relate to), is meant to be a   
   >>>>> false finish that never comes (and is, therefore, not a finish)?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yes.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> That would sound vaguely profound if it actually had any intelligible   
   >>>>> meaning.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You have words and music.  Do you need meaning too?   
   >>>   
   >>> Meaning can be overrated.   
   >> Words mean whatever you want them to.   
   >   
   > Spoken like a true Fragmentist!   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>  Now that the lights are going so low   
   >>>>>>>>>>  the dimming glow   
   >>>>>>>>>>  falls on my ego   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> We have now arrived at the point in a Will Donkey poem, when I'm   
   >>>>> inwardly screaming out "SHOOT ME NOW!!!"   
   >>>>   
   >>>> That's when his teachers committed mass suicide.   
   >>>   
   >>> No.  They committed mass suicide when they learned they'd be stuck   
   >>> teaching him for another year.   
   >>   
   >> Thus "GED" appeared in the sky, saying "Go forth since you don't know   
   >> how to multiply."  But Dockery fooled Him.   
   >   
   > The "GED" should be ashamed of itself.   
   >   
   >>>>> How does the dimming glow of some lights affect your speaker's ego?   
   >>>>> Does he feel inconsequential at dusk?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> He is rhyming three consecutive lines.  It is vaguely reminiscent of   
   >>>> "Leggo my Eggo."  The "so low" also refers to George Dance.   
   >>>   
   >>> Will has often credited waffles as his poetic inspiration.   
   >> Random rhymes enliven even the most inane poems.   
   >   
   > It's Will's nod to one of his biggest sources of inspiration: "Popeye   
   > the Sailor Man."  (Yes, Will has actually cited him as one of his   
   > biggest influences.)   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >>>>>>>>>>  now that I'm falling   
   >>>>>>>>>>  into my morning   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> So your speaker is still lying "here" (or, perhaps, "there") waking up   
   >>>>> from contemplating returning to someone or something, and the lights   
   >>>>> have suddenly dimmed?  Was there a brown out?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> He's also falling up or down.  Maybe into?   
   >>>   
   >>> Up, down, falling around, looping the loop and defying the ground!   
   >> Is Dockery actually a hot air balloon?   
   >   
   > That or a flying elephant.   
   >   
   >>>>>>>>>>  here I am gazing into those   
   >>>>>>>>>>  reflector eyes   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Is the (supposedly deceased) "you" he's been addressing actually lying   
   >>>>> on the floor with him (not having "passed by" him at all)?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Robot.   
   >>>   
   >>> Inflat-a-Mate.   
   >> Those will be available soon, sitting on the bar stools at LeGents.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>  morning light   
   >>>>>>>>>>  is blasting my head clean too.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "Too"?  Too implies that he'd already told us about something else that   
   >>>>> the morning light was blasting clean.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Why does his head need to be cleaned?  We thought that was what the   
   >>>> Brillo hair was for?   
   >>>   
   >>> Are you kidding?  Brillo picks up dust like nobody's business.   
   >> Just add a little water (or liquor) and Brill hair suds up fine.  Brillo   
   >> Head and Shoulders cleans heads and tails.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>> So... basically, the speaker had gotten drunk and/or stoned, passed out   
   >>>>> either here or there, woke up contemplating whether he should return to   
   >>>>> someone or something, rambled incoherently about how his life (or the   
   >>>>> life of someone else) passed him by... until the morning lights dimmed,   
   >>>>> blasting his head clean.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Got it.  NOT!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> And fell down.   
   >>>   
   >>> And fell down over there... at the floor... over here.   
   >> Was there a dirt floor at/in/on/under/atop the shed?   
   >   
   >   
   > It was somewhere there, but who knows where/   
   >   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>  Morning's clearer   
   >>>>>>>>>>  I've been forgetting it.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Donkey, Donkey, Donkey [shakes head], always with the pronouns.  The   
   >>>>> speaker has been forgetting what?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Forgot to put his pants on?   
   >>>   
   >>> He had too much beer the night before and couldn't fit into them.   
   >> What happened to the favorite dress that he mentioned?   
   >   
   > Same thing that happened to 99.9% of his wardrobe -- he outgrew it.   
   >   
   >>>>> And how can morning be "clearer" when it had never been described as   
   >>>>> being "unclear"?   
   >>>> He put his glasses on?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>  Your thoughts seem to stream   
   >>>>>>>>>>  like a highway   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Light streams.  Highways don't.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> He is rhyming "seem" and "stream."  So unexpected!   
   >>>   
   >>> At least this time it wasn't a dream.   
   >> But Dockery never sleeps, so how can he dream?   
   >   
   > The dream dates from 40-ish years ago.  Perhaps he was sleeping better   
   > back then.   
   >   
   >>>>> Who is the speaker addressing?  Himself?  The morning?  The unidentified   
   >>>>> person whose "uncaused" and "untraced" life had passed him by?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "All or nothing at all."   
   >>>   
   >>> Unclean heads never appealed to me.  If your head going to be dirt-ee,   
   >>> then I'd rather have no head at all.   
   >> He is referring to Stinky G.'s supposed Navy service, cleaning heads.   
   >> Deep meanings.   
   >   
   > Stinky wouldn't know a head if they swirlied him in one.  He thinks that   
   > buses have latrines.   
   >   
   >   
   >>> Two minutes later and the marbles were on the floor.   
   >> Playing marbles on a ship would seem to be a self-defeating game.   
   >   
   > Not if it's smooth sailing.   
   >   
   >>>>>>>>>>  dimming lights seem to streak   
   >>>>>>>>>>  like hitch-hikers.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "Hitchhikers" is not hyphenated.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Why would morning lights be dimming again?  Usually the ambient light   
   >>>>> increases as the sun continues its ascent.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The laws of physics work differently in Shadowville.   
   >>>   
   >>> Ah! Hence the shadows.   
      
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