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Re: Spinning Swiftly -- poem by Zod

#786783
From: will.dockery@gma
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:41
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Zod wrote:

> On Saturday, June 19, 2021 at 6:49:06 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> Zod wrote:
>> >
>> > Spinning Swiftly
>>
>> > Sprained ankle
>> > stumbled
>> > over the tracks.
>>
>> > Dark demon
>> > in a 24 ounce tin.
>>
>> > She lifts her kickers
>> > tomorrow's raging
>> > headache
>> > is all that remains.
>>
>> > Murrowed gill people
>> > on the lake shore
>> > at backwater
>> > Goat Rock Damn.
>>
>> > Without any special
>> > dispensation
>> > by the bog
>> > still running from the Mob.
>>
>> > All these nights
>> > of nothing
>> > but
>> > undercover dollars.
>>
>> > It was sold
>> > down the line
>> > awaiting my soul
>> > looking for a number
>> > or nookie.
>>
>> > Forever to prey
>> > pray
>> > to the gods of rock and roll.
>>
>> > Waiting
>> > wait in silence
>> > the other old man
>> > is dying.
>>
>> > By General Zod
>>
>> > ***
>> I like his poem, it goes all over the place, sure, but that's not unusual in poetry, as you know.

> I thank, Robert Pinsky insired me.....

Works well.

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