Signposts on the Outskirts / Will Dockery

Will Dockery

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Signposts on the Outskirts

Down the road we are moving
and the darkness is like a solid block.
The silence around me is being shattered
by the roar of my engine's knock.
And nobody around me seems
to have the strength to talk.
The other two seem to have nodded off
from the backseat I hear someone cough
I light your smoke and watch it spark
And these signposts on the outskirts
flash by in strobes in the dark.

In the middle of this circle
the words twisted in a ball of yellow.
Like a layer over that there's you
talking softly, kind of mellow.
The others don't know what you mean
they think you've become like a machine.
They think that your life is too clean
for them to speak to.
I'm wondering if their numbers are that few
those metallic children of the dawn
who chase in and out after you.
Peer pressure for a race down a dead-end
into the faded jaws of youth.
I'm wondering through your soft words
you would reveal
what these signposts on the outskirts
are trying to conceal?

True, I stumbled and fell
I lost my way the other night.
I always felt even a choice for folly
that it was my right.
but when I did, if I messed up your flight
I hope you know that I'm sorry.
If what you said to me was for real
then why do you still refuse to feel?
Why are you still making me kneel
like a dog on the floor?
I'm trying to find the power
to open up your locked door.
Your words splatter like blotches of rain
jumbled concepts like leaves that jam a drain
take another dose it will free up your brain
but if you don't mind I'll side-step the pain
if all you can see are flames.
Not much else that I can say
as I watch you in the moonlight, your sway
just beyond those signposts on the outskirts
as I'm begging you to stay.

They think you act so odd
that you must be motorized.
You seem to look on that
with some surprise.
Worthless meanings, evening, and the skies
are flaming with stars.
If you can believe
what we've both seen here
our thoughts are together it seems clear
nobody else even wants to get near
we're on the edge, just a bit too far.
We converse as we ride
backbeat percussion
from the engine of the car.
Light prickles through enlightening stars
the white picket fences in the dark
passing the frosted fields from afar.
And on those signposts on the outskirts
your secret is revealed.

-Will Dockery / May 26 1976

Will Dockery

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Jun 12, 2016, 7:16:26 PM6/12/16

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About the unearthing and archiving of old, really old, works, I just found out about what should be a fabulous new book from Harlan Ellison, which will also be... his oldest.

https://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/coffin_nails

Coffin Nails by Harlan Ellison

23 stories written in 1957/8, previously published only in original digest magazines

2 stories written in 1969 which have remained unpublished until this collection

These are among the very first steps on a sixty-year career, and have been hidden away until now in the fragile brown pages of magazines like Super Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, and Science Fiction Adventures—but they let us see an in emergence the style and urgency that came to full maturity in his latter, widely celebrated work. With this book, all of Harlan Ellison's stories so far are preserved in book form.

—from the introduction

A fascinating glimpse into the past of one of the greatest.

lloyds...@gmail.com

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Jun 13, 2016, 12:58:59 AM6/13/16

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Love it will you have talent

abhazia...@gmail.com

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Jun 13, 2016, 6:43:00 AM6/13/16

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Hi Will!
I enjoy.

Will Dockery

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Jun 13, 2016, 11:09:06 AM6/13/16

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On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 12:58:59 AM UTC-4, lloyds...@gmail.com wrote:
> Love it will you have talent

Thanks, Lloyd, and good to see you drop by.

:)

George Sulzbach

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Jun 13, 2016, 5:45:26 PM6/13/16

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Wow, some real oldies here. I was still up in Buffalo at Grand Island for 6 more years at that time, my parents didn't move down to Alabama until 1982, at which point one year later we met, working at the old mill.

Will Dockery

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Jun 13, 2016, 10:26:17 PM6/13/16

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On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 5:45:26 PM UTC-4, George Sulzbach wrote:
> Wow, some real oldies here. I was still up in Buffalo at Grand Island for 6 more years at that time, my parents didn't move down to Alabama until 1982, at which point one year later we met, working at the old mill.

I remember the day we met like it was yesterday.

I was sitting in the Cartersville Spinning Mill break room drinking coffee and drawing one of my comic strips. Just came storming in, you were working in that sweat shop called the blending room and must have only had a few seconds to grab a coffee and run.

We spoke briefly, I was already close friends with your brother Jeff and so knew of you, and had even looked at a couple of your paintings that were hanging in your mother's trailer (this was before you followed the family south, you were still in Buffalo with a girl, if my memory serves me well) but had not met you yet.

This must have been early 1984, when you worked at the mill for a spell, then jumped the fence and joined the Navy, and was thus away for four more years, before I really got to know you so well.

Interesting, distant yet vivid memories.

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Will Dockery

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Jun 14, 2016, 12:48:03 PM6/14/16

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On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 5:45:26 PM UTC-4, George Sulzbach wrote:

> Wow, some real oldies here. I was still up in Buffalo at Grand Island for 6 more years at that time, my parents didn't move down to Alabama until 1982, at which point one year later we met, working at the old mill.

Yes, we were just kids, teenagers, in 1976 when I wrote these poems.

Will Dockery

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Jun 14, 2016, 10:28:28 PM6/14/16

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Lloyds...@gmail.com wrote:
> Love it will you have talent

By the way, Lloyd, I know you have dabbled in verse over the 20+ years I have known you.

Here's hoping you will return and share some of that poetry with us on the group?

:)

Will Dockery

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Jun 15, 2016, 3:06:27 PM6/15/16

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George Sulzbach wrote:
> Wow, some real oldies here. I was still up in Buffalo at Grand Island for 6 more years at that time, my parents didn't move down to Alabama until 1982, at which point one year later we met, working at the old mill.

Only slightly off-topic, and I see the release of the book is near. Just about the most exciting literary event of the year, at least, as we come very close to having the /complete/ writings of Harlan Ellison in print:

===========================================================
Coffin Nails by Harlan Ellison signed and numbered limited edition hardcover:

http://www.darkregions.com/books/all/coffin-nails-harlan-ellison-signed-numbered-hardcover-preorder

Over 450 pages of uncollected and never printed pulp stories from the late 50’s and 60’s by the great Harlan Ellison limited to just 200 signed and numbered copies worldwide. Payment plans are available for this item.

23 stories written in 1957/8, previously published only in original digest magazines

2 stories written in 1969 which have remained unpublished until this collection

These are among the very first steps on a sixty-year career, and have been hidden away until now in the fragile brown pages of magazines like Super Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, and Science Fiction Adventures—but they let us see in emergence the style and urgency that came to full maturity in his latter, widely celebrated work. With this book, all of Harlan Ellison’s stories so far are preserved in book form. —from the introduction by Tim Powers
================================================

I can't wait to get a copy of this, the cost is so high I'll settle for a library copy.

:)

Will Dockery

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Jun 21, 2016, 10:49:53 PM6/21/16

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Bumped to the top for Jimmy.

Are you out there, Jimmy?

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And so it went.

:)

drive-by

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Jun 22, 2016, 2:28:12 AM6/22/16

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Enjoyed once again, Will...although I might be wrong as usual, it seems a poetic story about an attempt at love not quite connecting...all towns, for me, have the outskirts...though the name is the town is the same, there is a line where inhabitants live differently, whether money or lack of...rough/fancy...those two can never meet completely, though both wish it could be.

The engine knock, Will, works just fine with the rain...a nice back beat to the story.

...your story brought the south up north..:-)

J

drive-by

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Jun 22, 2016, 6:19:27 AM6/22/16

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Also got a whiff of "Streetcar/Desire"

Will Dockery

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Jun 22, 2016, 1:46:45 PM6/22/16

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On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 2:28:12 AM UTC-4, drive-by wrote:

Hello Jimmy, I was out on the outskirts of Smith Station Alabama (which is just past the outskirts of Phenix City) last night/this morning, hanging out with my old friend George Sulzbach, who had the Rolling Stones live DVD blasting, finishing up his painting of a girl we both loved, Julie Poolie.

Me with Julie Pooley:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/357684395377616608/

He said, "You should write like me and I'll write like you..." and we did this, passing the notepad back and forth for 2-3 hours, and ending up with eight poems, sketches of Julie. We wanted eighteen like all the classic double albums of the past, but daylight was creeping in and neither of us needed to risk that.

I have them, and the art work, thinking this will make a kind of nice chapbook, which I'm thinking of putting on Café Press or some-such venue.

Working title was the "White Girl Album" in homage to, of course, "you know who", but I also suggest we call it "Pool Girl". The title is obviously, as if often is, the toughest part of the project.

More on this as details develop, kind of an exciting project, in more ways than one.

:)

Will Dockery

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Jun 22, 2016, 2:15:04 PM6/22/16

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This will be up to George, the concept was his, and probably it will need Julie's approval, I don't want anything I, or we, write to cause her any embarrassment, or put any of her current situations at risk or strain.

I think George should type them up and post them here, maybe one per day style, and see how they float.

:)

George Sulzbach

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Jun 22, 2016, 6:28:23 PM6/22/16

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All just freestyle imaginings, that's all.

Will Dockery

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Jun 24, 2016, 10:07:17 AM6/24/16

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"drive-by" wrote in message
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Southern Gothic Noir.

:)

Will Dockery

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Jun 24, 2016, 5:37:50 PM6/24/16

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Its not letting me post to any groups.

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I know, it has been frozen for over a day now...

Jerry Kraus

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Jun 24, 2016, 8:09:21 PM6/24/16

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Splendid.

Will Dockery

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Jun 24, 2016, 10:03:26 PM6/24/16

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"Jerry Kraus" wrote in message
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Thank you, Jerry.

:)

Will Dockery

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Jun 25, 2016, 12:22:43 AM6/25/16

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"George Sulzbach" wrote in message
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> All just freestyle imaginings, that's all.

Slightly structured, to a degree.

Will Dockery

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Jun 26, 2016, 1:14:01 PM6/26/16

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Hello, Jerry, I remember you now, and great to have you back on the newsgroup.

http://aspacetoread.blogspot.com/2006/09/fantasy-compiled-from-northumbrian.html

Will Dockery

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Jun 29, 2016, 8:04:30 AM6/29/16

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High praise indeed to be compared, even slightly, to Tennessee Williams, thanks Jimmy.

:)

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Will Dockery

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Jul 3, 2016, 11:39:50 AM7/3/16

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On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 6:43:00 AM UTC-4, abhazia...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hi Will!
> I enjoy.

Thank you for reading and commenting.

And so it goes.

:)

Will Dockery

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Jul 7, 2016, 7:47:49 AM7/7/16

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On Friday, June 24, 2016 at 8:09:21 PM UTC-4, Jerry Kraus wrote:

Thanks again, Jerry (and reposted for example purposes, of Jerry as a semi-regular reader and poster on this newsgroup, for D.R.--- if you're reading this, pal).

:D

Will Dockery

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Jul 7, 2016, 1:59:58 PM7/7/16

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Thanks again, Jimmy... so much for the claim by the bitterly jealous "Dental River" that nobody reads and comments on the poetry here, eh?

:)

Richard Oakley

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Jul 7, 2016, 2:43:14 PM7/7/16

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The glory days ARE gone.

Will Dockery

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Jul 7, 2016, 8:21:58 PM7/7/16

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On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 2:43:14 PM UTC-4, Richard Oakley wrote:
> The glory days ARE gone.

No, glory never goes out of style.

:)

Richard Oakley

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Jul 8, 2016, 1:08:02 AM7/8/16

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Of Usenet.

Will Dockery

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Jul 8, 2016, 1:15:54 AM7/8/16

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On Friday, July 8, 2016 at 1:08:02 AM UTC-4, Richard Oakley wrote:
> Of Usenet.

I don't really agree, on some levels.

Right now, we have a decent roster of poets and only one malicious troll.

That's a pretty good level we're on, comparatively.

:)

Will Dockery

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Jul 8, 2016, 8:10:28 PM7/8/16

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By the way, Jimmy, if you have time, I'd like to read more on this comparison you've made.

:)

drive-by

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Jul 8, 2016, 8:52:43 PM7/8/16

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It's the heat, humidity of the write...a slow moving ceiling fan doing nothing but push air from one spot to another.

It's the brutality, recognized but unable to correct ...and the sweat lingers with a passionate plea.."Stella" the embrace, the sadness, the soon to be baby born into four walls of insatiability.

I enjoyed very much...a piece that could not have been written up north...but down south where it belongs.

Though set in an automobile, it easily can be set in an apartment where peace one moment can become rampage.

Card games,beer and brutality....though Stanley is, in fact, very weak.

Hope that makes sense...

Your poem, which I consider one of your best, has a scent to it...a taste, southern style..........

Rachel

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Jul 8, 2016, 9:09:19 PM7/8/16

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That reminds me of my Board and Care.

Will Dockery

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Jul 9, 2016, 5:57:42 PM7/9/16

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Again, thank you, Jimmy, you definitely nail the inner clockwork of the poem, and I can say this mostly applies to the entire canon of work.

:)

Will Dockery

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Jul 9, 2016, 8:31:25 PM7/9/16

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George Sulzbach wrote:
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> Wow, some real oldies here. I was still up in Buffalo at Grand Island for 6 more years at that time, my parents didn't move down to Alabama until 1982, at which point one year later we met, working at the old mill.

Damn, man, I got to help get you back online here again... did you forget your password or something?

:)

Will Dockery

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Jul 10, 2016, 4:12:12 PM7/10/16

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Richard Oakley wrote:
> Of Usenet.

Left behind a mighty strong archive, though.

:)

Will Dockery

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Jul 11, 2016, 3:58:35 PM7/11/16

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A high pressure situation in close quarters?

Rachel

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Jul 11, 2016, 4:03:31 PM7/11/16

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no it was HOT, with no air-conditioning.

Will Dockery

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Jul 11, 2016, 4:36:59 PM7/11/16

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Had that last night when I stopped by George Sulzbach's trailer, and turns out his landlord, David McBride (a local Country music star), cut off his electricity yesterday.

So we sat out in the front yard, in the dark, listening to the radio, George with his warm beer and me with my cold coffee, Brother Dave with lukewarm Coca-Cola.

Sweltering heat with small breezes, under the big sky of stars over Alabama.

:)

--
https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/video/4971478
"Feelin' Alright" - A tribute to Joe Cocker / Will Dockery, Sandy Madaris & Conley Brothers.

Rachel

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Jul 11, 2016, 4:46:09 PM7/11/16

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but that was the least of it.

i was suffering and slowly recovering from the ravages of crystal meth/brain damage.

(after an employee there was giving it to me for a while, and then that stopped, i think he left)

(the first time i took it there, from him, i was singing, and i thought it was so beautiful, i was like, okay, i have to practice, so i can sing for bob dylan, this is my purpose in life.)

Will Dockery

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Jul 11, 2016, 6:45:13 PM7/11/16

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Wow, that Crystal Meth is some dangerous stuff, glad you got off that.

Rachel

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Jul 11, 2016, 6:56:19 PM7/11/16

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me too! :-///

Will Dockery

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Jul 11, 2016, 7:42:32 PM7/11/16

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Thank God you survived it... many I've known did not.

--
https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/video/4971478

A tribute to Joe Cocker / Will Dockery, Sandy Madaris & Conley Brothers.

:)

Will Dockery

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Jul 12, 2016, 10:04:26 AM7/12/16

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The northern side of town and beyond had heavy rains yesterday, so things cooled down out on the outskirts last night, except George was sitting in his front yard blasting The Rolling Stones on his car stereo around 2-3am, and someone called the Lee County Sheriff on us. He was very friendly and simply told George to turn it down a couple of notches.

:)

Will Dockery

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Jul 19, 2016, 1:41:43 PM7/19/16

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Tennessee Williams... I've been grappling with his "Night of the Iguana" yesterday and this morning, even dreamed of it, or elements of it were in my dreams, the long soliloquy/monologue from the character Hannah near the end was being repeated by some "dream person" I never met before until the dream.

"Who wouldn’t like to atone for the sins of themselves, and the world, if it could be done in a hammock with ropes, instead of on a Cross, with nails? On a green hilltop, instead of Golgotha, the Place of the Skulls? Isn’t that a comparatively comfortable, almost voluptuous Crucifixion to suffer for the sins of the world..?"

http://www.monologuedb.com/dramatic-female-monologues/the-night-of-the-iguana-hannah-jelkes/

Will Dockery

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Jul 31, 2016, 8:45:27 PM7/31/16

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Been off this track for a couple of weeks but I'll be delving into more of my unseen archives during August, Jimmy, and thanks again.

Will Dockery

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Aug 21, 2016, 12:37:21 PM8/21/16

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Rachel wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Friday, July 8, 2016 at 9:09:19 PM UTC-4, Rachel wrote:

Hope you are doing well, Rachel... since you apparently bailed on us.

:)

Rachel

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Aug 21, 2016, 12:55:45 PM8/21/16

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yeah, i'm gone. i went out, made lots of friends, never even have a minute to stop and sit on my couch, am doing crystal meth and bulimia round the clock, it's a real blast.

Will Dockery

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Aug 21, 2016, 1:08:18 PM8/21/16

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You must be joking... I hope.

Will Dockery

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Aug 21, 2016, 4:40:19 PM8/21/16

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Okay, I just thought you'd probably left with Corey.

:)

Richard Oakley

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Aug 21, 2016, 8:44:07 PM8/21/16

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no, he's on the potside of town.

Rachel

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Aug 21, 2016, 8:48:17 PM8/21/16

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On Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 5:44:07 PM UTC-7, Richard Oakley wrote:
> no, he's on the potside of town.

what's potside?

Michael Pendragon

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Aug 21, 2016, 11:09:00 PM8/21/16

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Across the way from Crystal Meth Row.

Will Dockery

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Aug 23, 2016, 12:16:42 PM8/23/16

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On Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 8:44:07 PM UTC-4, Richard Oakley wrote:
> no, he's on the potside of town.

Were you in the Navy, Richard?

Portside = Left aka West side of town.

Starboard = Right aka Eastside.

In Shadowville terms of direction, that would place him on the Alabama side of the river, as the boundaries expand somewhere past Auburn, basically... in other words, "He's gone portside."

:)

Richard Oakley

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Aug 23, 2016, 4:52:04 PM8/23/16

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Would one go 'out West' for pot in your town? lol
Green gold
Colorado crumble

Richard Oakley

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Aug 23, 2016, 4:57:54 PM8/23/16

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I had wild Japanese persimmon
loaded with hash...
I got it from that there 'mon'
now it's on the dash.

The cops don't take too kind
to my lack of pastry fair.
If I went to DD, I'd forget my rind,
give 'em a proper donut from Colorado air.

Will Dockery

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Aug 24, 2016, 5:36:44 AM8/24/16

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Persimmons... I haven't thought of those fruits in years. There was a persimmon tree out in La Grange in the Tatum School yard, the only one I remember ever seeing. I recall the persimmon was a kind of odd tasting plum-like fruit, supposedly beloved of Possums.

Will Dockery

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Aug 24, 2016, 11:00:18 AM8/24/16

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Okay, but no smoke... just stuff a bud in the vapor bong.

:)

Will Dockery

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Aug 24, 2016, 11:42:43 AM8/24/16

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Yeah, like this:

http://www.treknature.com/gallery/North_America/United_States/photo244499.htm

"...Here in the US. we have a phrase 'Happy as a Opossum in a Persimmon Tree' Well here is the Oppossum sitting in the Persimmon Tree in my back yard."

:D

Will Dockery

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Aug 25, 2016, 1:56:37 PM8/25/16

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The East and Southside of town used to usually have the best drugs and hookers here in Shadowville, although North Highland had its moments as well.

:)

Will Dockery

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Aug 26, 2016, 1:20:04 AM8/26/16

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"Down in the Boondocks".

:)

George Sulzbach

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Sep 20, 2016, 10:54:17 PM9/20/16

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Still saying this is one of your best, strong any year.

Will Dockery

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Sep 21, 2016, 3:55:45 AM9/21/16

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On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 10:54:17 PM UTC-4, George Sulzbach wrote:
> Still saying this is one of your best, strong any year.

Thanks, I have remained happy with this one myself... so far.

:)

George Sulzbach

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Sep 21, 2016, 4:17:12 AM9/21/16

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You got this.

George Sulzbach

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Sep 22, 2016, 1:03:32 PM9/22/16

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Try as I might I see no option for quoting text on this gizmo.

Will Dockery

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Sep 22, 2016, 1:27:11 PM9/22/16

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On Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 1:03:32 PM UTC-4, George Sulzbach wrote:
> Try as I might I see no option for quoting text on this gizmo.

I( don't know since I've hardly ever used an Ipad type device like you have, except a few minutes with yours. The touch pad set up is enough to keep me away from those things... I will always prefer the action of typing, in fact wish I could plug an old Underwood typewrite up to this and get the complete feel... the return carriage and bell, the excitement that came and the loud clacking in the night when a great idea popped in.

But, bring the Ipad downtown tonight to Fountain City Coffee and I'll have a look with you there, we can see if I can figure that aspect of posting out with you, as quoting text is kind of important for communication here.

:)

George Sulzbach

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Sep 22, 2016, 4:08:20 PM9/22/16

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Okay, I will look for you on the sidewalk of Broadway tonight.

Will Dockery

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Sep 22, 2016, 5:07:14 PM9/22/16

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On Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 4:08:20 PM UTC-4, George Sulzbach wrote:
> Okay, I will look for you on the sidewalk of Broadway tonight.

That's good but don't expect me before dark, the weather out there is just a little too warm for me just yet... looking forward to a chilly autumn wind to match that harvest moon.

George Sulzbach

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Sep 23, 2016, 3:17:45 AM9/23/16

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Shades of Lick Skilit and Gist Rock Dam.

George Sulzbach

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Sep 23, 2016, 3:18:36 AM9/23/16

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River Road, correct?

Will Dockery

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Sep 23, 2016, 9:22:01 AM9/23/16

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On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 3:17:45 AM UTC-4, George Sulzbach wrote:
> Shades of Lick Skillet and Goat Rock Dam.

Yes, Goat Rock Dam, just a couple of roads up from the area your mother and father (and you and Brother Jeff) lived in when you first moved down South.

I know that whacky "auto correct" your Ipad has made a mess of your post but for a local, your meaning was easy to understand.

George Sulzbach

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Sep 23, 2016, 6:41:31 PM9/23/16

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Yes I did mean Goat Rock Dam of course... On the Alabama side of the river.

H H

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Sep 23, 2016, 8:12:45 PM9/23/16

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On Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 1:03:32 PM UTC-4, George Sulzbach wrote:
> Try as I might I see no option for quoting text on this gizmo.

There is no option for quoting in mobile mode (the reason Corey never quoted).
All mobile devices run mobile mode of google groups by default.
To switch to desktop mode scroll the screen he bottom past all replies and select desktop mode.

Will Dockery

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Sep 23, 2016, 8:28:41 PM9/23/16

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Thanks Horatio, that's some very useful information... and I hope you're doing well, long time no see.

:)

George Sulzbach

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Sep 24, 2016, 2:11:58 AM9/24/16

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Well that sure explains it... Si I am stuck with my no quoting self here then... Thanks for explaining, HH.

George Sulzbach

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Sep 24, 2016, 8:47:02 AM9/24/16

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The scroll down to desktop... Seems to not exist on my gizmo.

George Sulzbach

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Sep 24, 2016, 9:15:36 AM9/24/16

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On Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 10:30:12 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> Signposts on the Outskirts
>
> Down the road we are moving
> and the darkness is like a solid block.
> The silence around me is being shattered
> by the roar of my engine's knock.
> And nobody around me seems
> to have the strength to talk.
> The other two seem to have nodded off
> from the backseat I hear someone cough
> I light your smoke and watch it spark
> And these signposts on the outskirts
> flash by in strobes in the dark.
>
> In the middle of this circle
> the words twisted in a ball of yellow.
> Like a layer over that there's you
> talking softly, kind of mellow.
> The others don't know what you mean
> they think you've become like a machine.
> They think that your life is too clean
> for them to speak to.
> I'm wondering if their numbers are that few
> those metallic children of the dawn
> who chase in and out after you.
> Peer pressure for a race down a dead-end
> into the faded jaws of youth.
> I'm wondering through your soft words
> you would reveal
> what these signposts on the outskirts
> are trying to conceal?
>
> True, I stumbled and fell
> I lost my way the other night.
> I always felt even a choice for folly
> that it was my right.
> but when I did, if I messed up your flight
> I hope you know that I'm sorry.
> If what you said to me was for real
> then why do you still refuse to feel?
> Why are you still making me kneel
> like a dog on the floor?
> I'm trying to find the power
> to open up your locked door.
> Your words splatter like blotches of rain
> jumbled concepts like leaves that jam a drain
> take another dose it will free up your brain
> but if you don't mind I'll side-step the pain
> if all you can see are flames.
> Not much else that I can say
> as I watch you in the moonlight, your sway
> just beyond those signposts on the outskirts
> as I'm begging you to stay.
>
> They think you act so odd
> that you must be motorized.
> You seem to look on that
> with some surprise.
> Worthless meanings, evening, and the skies
> are flaming with stars.
> If you can believe
> what we've both seen here
> our thoughts are together it seems clear
> nobody else even wants to get near
> we're on the edge, just a bit too far.
> We converse as we ride
> backbeat percussion
> from the engine of the car.
> Light prickles through enlightening stars
> the white picket fences in the dark
> passing the frosted fields from afar.
> And on those signposts on the outskirts
> your secret is revealed.
>
> -Will Dockery / May 26 1976

Well I think that the Desktop mode definitely is slowly solving the quote problem.

Now to simply learn how to operate in this format.

George Sulzbach

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It will take some time so I am approaching it by pacing myself.

George Sulzbach

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George Sulzbach

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George Sulzbach

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George Sulzbach

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George Sulzbach

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Will Dockery

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Wow, look here, George Sulzbach quoting text... will wonders never cease?

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George Sulzbach

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I do know how to quote now but it is still very difficult for me so bear with me on that if you don't mind?

Will Dockery

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On Sunday, September 25, 2016 at 10:51:23 AM UTC-4, George Sulzbach wrote:
> I do know how to quote now but it is still very difficult for me so bear with me on that if you don't mind?

It isn't that big a problem for me, I got used to it when Corey posted the same way for several years... if I need to clarify or get confused by something you post, I'll ask.

Another problem with Corey, though, is that he didn't seem to care for communication or even answering simple questions, always the run-around with that fellow.

:)

George Sulzbach

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No, that is not the case with me at all, I assure you.

George Sulzbach

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I take great pains to keep and remain proud ofy honesty which ad you know has gotten me some grief over the years.

Will Dockery

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On Monday, September 26, 2016 at 1:59:04 PM UTC-4, George Sulzbach wrote:
> I take great pains to keep and remain proud ofy honesty which ad you know has gotten me some grief over the years.

I know, you get so honest sometimes it makes me want to bitch-slap you.

:)

Samsung Experience

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Almost epic, yet a ship in a bottle, or lightning.

Will Dockery

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On Monday, September 26, 2016 at 6:33:29 PM UTC-4, Samsung Experience wrote:
> Almost epic, yet a ship in a bottle, or lightning.

An interesting observation, thanks for passing through and for the comments.

George Sulzbach

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Your work has always been of mighty construction, I do agree.

George Sulzbach

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On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 12:58:59 AM UTC-4, lloyds...@gmail.com wrote:
> Love it will you have talent

Hey, I agree with this post, one of Doc's best.

George Sulzbach

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> Enjoyed once again, Will...although I might be wrong as usual, it seems a poetic story about an attempt at love not quite connecting...all towns, for me, have the outskirts...though the name is the town is the same, there is a line where inhabitants live differently, whether money or lack of...rough/fancy...those two can never meet completely, though both wish it could be.
>
> The engine knock, Will, works just fine with the rain...a nice back beat to the story.
>
> ...your story brought the south up north..:-)
>
> J

Hello Jimmy I agree with you, one if Doc's all time best poems.

Richard Oakley

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On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 8:12:45 PM UTC-4, H H wrote:

The option is always there to simply copy and paste.

George Sulzbach

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Not sure how to make this little gizmo copy and paste, yet.

Will Dockery

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I will be doing this live with the band as soon as In can remember all the lyrics.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.arts.poetry.comments/D3MK4_6OzRs/6w8kU6R9AAAJ

:)