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On Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 7:19:42 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 5:20:09 AM UTC-4, G Terrance Zod wrote: 
> > On Sunday, March 1, 2020 at 2:53:12 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote: 
> > 
> > > > > On Saturday, March 22, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, ROLLER 666 first posted this Will Dockery poem at alt.ezines: 
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.ezines/WETEBNJgKTE/AXY0okJrzUIJ 
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Bruised Flower 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The bruised flower sleeps, 
> > > > > > I'm waiting in the 
> > > > > > living room battle ground. 
> > > > > > Dawn seeps light into the room. 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > In this alien hill country 
> > > > > > a hundred miles from home. 
> > > > > > Sleeping in-laws like these 
> > > > > > I dare not shut my eyes. 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > She's just one of those people 
> > > > > > with the fate of having the wrong father. 
> > > > > > He walked into this thing, 
> > > > > > what kind of choice did she have 
> > > > > > to take the blame? 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Not the worst holiday I ever had, 
> > > > > > there's been several that have been worse. 
> > > > > > Sometimes I wonder what's the point, 
> > > > > > but not for long... 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > All she wants is some love 
> > > > > > she could really use some acceptance. 
> > > > > > All she gets is some coldness 
> > > > > > it tears my heart up to see it. 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The bruised flower sleeps, 
> > > > > > I'm waiting in the 
> > > > > > living room battle ground. 
> > > > > > Dawn seeps light into the room. 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Gaunt is from Will Dockery's zine, Teri 
> > > > > > Baal, a 16 page chapbook. The poem above is also by Dockery and from Teri 
> > > > > > Baal. Will Dockery, P.O. Box xxxx, Phenix City, AL 36868, U.S.A. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ===================================================== 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Re-posted in connection to this week's S.S. topic, "Flowers". 
> > > > 
> > > > This one was actually written around 1991-92, am I correct....? 
> > > 
> > > Yes, I'll have to check for the exact date, but around 1992 at Katherine's Aunt Mary's house in Villa Rica. I can remember that night like it was yesterday. 
> > 
> > I thought I remembered something like that...! !
> But, of course, any personal detail needs to be conveyed through the poetry, so another poem or two will be coming on this topic, eventually. 
> 
> ;)
aka Confessional Poetry....