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  • Re: Riding Through / Will Dockery

    From Will Dockery@user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid to alt.arts.poetry.comments on Thu May 14 11:55:46 2026
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    General Zod <zodthemighty2@gmail.com> posted:
    Will Dockery wrote:

    Riding Through

    This is not a happy world
    we're living in.
    This is not some happy poem
    I can't pretend.

    Well you could have told him
    to keep his ass in New York.
    But you didn't
    and that's understandable.

    It's in the a.m.
    and my thoughts wander.
    In the dark before the dawn
    as I keep on keeping on.

    Tapped to the muse
    my imaginary memory dream lovers.
    They are so real to me
    as am I.

    Yeah it's only me
    but it hurts so bad
    it could almost
    be somebody real
    somebody that has meaning.

    These mourning notes
    crafted up in neat stacks of word art.
    Trapped on the page
    with the bang clang of an old Underwood.

    -Will Dockery

    Somewhat obscure and quite good....

    Thanks again for reading and commenting and great to see you the other day, Zod.
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  • From will.dockery@will.dockery@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Will-Dockery) to alt.arts.poetry.comments on Fri May 15 22:42:10 2026
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    drive-by wrote:
    Will Dockery wrote:

    Riding Through

    This is not a happy world
    we're living in.
    This is not some happy poem
    I can't pretend.

    Well you could have told him
    to keep his ass in New York.
    But you didn't
    and that's understandable.

    It's in the a.m.
    and my thoughts wander.
    In the dark before the dawn
    as I keep on keeping on.

    Tapped to the muse
    my imaginary memory dream lovers.
    They are so real to me
    as am I.

    Yeah it's only me
    but it hurts so bad
    it could almost
    be somebody real
    somebody that has meaning.

    These mourning notes
    crafted up in neat stacks of word art.
    Trapped on the page
    with the bang clang of an old Underwood.

    -Will Dockery



    "Underwood" bringing me to Bukowski.......I shall mull......



    It's well known old Buk was an inspiration to me when I was a lad.


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