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Re: Little Homeless Clown / a poem by Will Dockery

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From: Will Dockery
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 17:08
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On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 3:04:04 AM UTC-4, Beach Comber wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>
> > Little Homeless Clown / a poem by Will Dockery
> >
> > The sign on the door read enter at your own risk.
> > Too many times now betrayed by the Judas kiss.
> > My baby rode by in a brand new pickup truck.
> > She waved goodbye, blew me a kiss for luck.
> > So I been out rambling shambling through the trailer park 'til dawn.
> > She was frozen in the hall like headlines on a fawn.
> > Give me another run before the sun goes down.
> > Give me another hit my little... homeless clown.
> >
> > All alone in this big old house again.
> > Harangued by all my so-called friends.
> > Well it's too late now she's riding with the wind.
> > Just last week she said she'd stick by me to the end.
> > Ain't no crystal ball but I can feel it in the back of my bones.
> > She got a sugar daddy she ain't never coming home.
> > Give me another run before the sun goes down.
> > Give me another hit my little.. homeless clown.
> >
> > I could tell she was lonely, it just wasn't for me,
> > She's got a little hankering to be a divorcee.
> > Give me another run,before the sun goes down.
> > Give me another hit my little... homeless clown.
> >
> > -Will Dockery (poem)/ Henry Conley (melody)
>
> Intense just like her lovely soul......

This one definitely comes across better when heard with with the music setting:

Little Homeless Clown by Will Dockery (words) and Henry Conley (music):

https://archive.org/details/LittleHomelessClown_952

Take three, for comparison and discussion...

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