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Article #634804Re: Ash Dust Moon / a poem by Will Dockery (1997)
From: General Zod
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:05
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:05
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On Thursday, November 8, 2018 at 11:04:10 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote: > Mike wrote in message > news:38fe6865-e759-445b-bb28-0cc129c1a269@googlegroups.com... > > On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 8:29:46 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: > > > > Will Dockery poem from alt.ezines 1997: > > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.ezines/TxRAq60fBPg/fWsKBAvijUYJ > > > > On Friday, March 14, 1997 at 4:00:00 AM UTC-4, ROLLER 666 posted: > > > Andrew Roller Presents > > > > <snipped for brevity> > > > > > Ash Dust Moon. > > > > > > She reached out and touched me through a void, > > > and brought me over to the funeral. > > > I was soon standing there as the preacher said the words. > > > For his good baptist soul. > > > He had been warm then his heart burst and he turned very cold. > > > Ashes to dust, > > > recycled to lung. > > > Spirits inside the air, > > > the void is there. > > > Lady Katherine was pleading to the underground, > > > that when he got there he wouldn't be found. > > > I was soon standing looking at the pictures at some exhibition. > > > They had been his though taken with a camera. > > > Naturally formed nuggets of art. > > > I could smell the summer on the ground steaming from the grass. > > > Acidity to morbidity, > > > profound profundity. > > > Smartest design in modern, > > > the void is the god. > > > > > > My head fell suddenly against the ground, > > > the glass on the gates rattled somewhat from this. > > > I saw a man up on the roof painting a fixture up there, > > > and the wind rooster turned. > > > On the radio was country and western playing in the woodshop. > > > I was in a truck across the parking lot watching and hearing this. > > > What I can't do, > > > is what I don't want to do. > > > Look into her chemicals, > > > look into those blues of yours. > > > Standing down there by the front door, > > > I really wasn't too close or at least enough to hear her. > > > I recognized this street despite all the bulldozing. > > > There's something wrong, there's something new here in this city. > > > The sadness and worry in Katherine's eyes, > > > terror tactics in our hearts and wind in our souls. > > > > > > (The above poem has been excerpted from Will Dockery's new zine, April > > > Bullets, which is a 32 page minicomic and is available for $1.00 from > > > Will > > > Dockery, P.O. Box xxxx, Phenix City, AL 36868, U.S.A.) > > > > > > Ash Dust Moon is > > > copyright 1997 by Will Dockery. > > > -END OF 213 EMISSION > > > > -- > > "Art is a selective recreation of reality according to an artist's > > metaphysical value judgments" -Ayn Rand > > > > Check out "Gone Too Far / Will Dockery & The Shadowville All-Stars - > > http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/song/11596860 > > > >> -- drinking coffee with Jack Snipe and Brian Mallard at Edgewood Park. > > > > Good poem thank you. > > Thanks for reading and commenting, Mike. Agreed...!!
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