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the messenjah <theguyonthebike@veryfast.biz> posted:

On Oct 2, 5:08-aam, Will Dockery <will.dock...@gmail.com> wrote:

Red-Lipped Stranger by Will Dockery & The Shadowville All-Stars /

Written by Will Dockery, Brian Mallard & Henry Conley / Vocals - Will Dockery / Vocals - Gini Woolfolk / Guitar - Brian Mallard / Art - Gary Frankfurth / Produced by Robbie Wright -- 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBhcN1WK144

Red-Lipped Stranger

Her creep crawls
the narrow stairway
of the Candlelight Motel
to watch for her
from a window.

Rethinking
his infatuation
but clinging
to his vision of her
as the red-lipped stranger.

Downstairs
the desk clerk's cat
slithers through
the service entrance.

The vampirate
on a motorbike
passes below
to the westbound bridge
werewolf on her back.

Jennifer at riverbend
watches gunboats
smacks her foot
on the bright red clay.

Jennifer gives good lyric
she wrote this poem
she's no bum.

But she's not there
on the other side
of the greenish wall.

Through a three-inch-wall
he hears
bedsprings rattle
rustle of dry-hump,
some guy's mumbles.

Hears the fat blonde waitress
whip it in bondage
the sounds
lull him to sleep.

The hand of Uncle Sugar
still taking notes
as a new standard bearer
hands out trophies
to the winners.

His trillion dollar gash
flakes from the bone
as gravity tears
a pound of dust.

Clings to a picture book
the missing part of himself
as if perpetually
anchored
to his invisible erection.

At Lucky Seven Lounge
she tries
not to reveal herself
but she stubbornly clutches
her empty shoes.

Something
seems missing
in the broad daylight
when the details
are displayed.

All that remains are
her flat black hat
her oversized lantern
her broken laptop.

No poor boy on the street
can speak of her
or the island on the river.
Or about her return...
her resurrection.

-Will Dockery

Finally. Someone posts some good work. Keep rockin' Will.

http://skywriter.diaryland.com/090930_75.html

I checked to see if this link still works,vans got this response:

"Diaryland
skywriter's diary is archived
The entries are still here. Diaryland has kept them safe.

This diary went quiet a long time ago, and at some point its writing was moved into long-term storage. Nothing was deleted. The words are waiting to be read again.

Bringing them back into the live diary takes a little work on our end, so we ask for a small one-time fee to cover it rCo and to help keep Diaryland running for the next 26 years.

Restore this diary
Diaryland home..."

This would no doubt be a fascinating archive to restore.
--
Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:
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