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Another of my song poems featuring the late Geno Woolfolk Jr on flute and keyboard:

"Shadowville Speedway" / Will Dockery (words) & Henry Conley (music)

https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery/song/8798172-shadowville-speedway--will-dockery

Geno Woolfolk Jr: flute & keyboard
Henry Conley: guitar
Doug Conley: bsss
John Phillips: drums
Will Dockery: vocals

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Shadowville Speedway

In a taxi watching a sporting house
Beside a Linwood vacant lot
Silver dollar moon port spotting
Constellation like a sailor's knot.

The sky was black
ink and glitter in the night
Train whine saxophone
out beyond the light.

I'm in love with a ghost
blue turns to grey
Put a pyramid on my head
to take my pain away.

Shadowville, Shadowville Speedway
Riding slow down a one way street.

Brown Recluse magic
drifting around the shed
Someone has it in for me
I must not lose my head.

Moving with the speedo life
several with me left behind
Burned too many bridges
defragmented my time.

Somewhere in time
I've seen all this before
In a magazine or a dream
of a distant war.

Shadowville, Shadowville Speedway
Riding slow down a one way street.

Manifested destiny
a manifesto and a part
All the actors still agree
that ever had a heart.

Hazel knew the karma
she kept it in a bottle
Black tooth mojo
marked index cards.

Bundles over the side
of Dillingham Bridge
Splashing as ripples
reflect from the stars.

Shadowville, Shadowville Speedway
Riding slow down a one way street
Shadowville, Shadowville Speedway
Don't look back, don't admit defeat.

-Will Dockery

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