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POETRY AS LIFE, No. 2

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michaelmalef...@gmail.com

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Dec 21, 2017, 12:53:38 PM12/21/17
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I am somewhat unique in that I'm possessed with a nearly total recollection of my infancy and early childhood. I don't remember the specific circumstances surrounding the first occasion on which I'd tasted pumpkin pie other than that my mother had just taken two fresh-baked pies out of the oven (most likely October, 1964); but I certainly remember the experience! It was the first time in my brief existence (one year) that I'd ever fallen in love.

From that moment on, I've been drawn to all things pumpkin. Pumpkin-flavored candy, coffee, muffins, bagels, oatmeal, cookies, ice-cream, yogurt, jack-o'lanterns, costumes, photos, decorations, you name it. The year before last, my wife put 52 icing-pumpkins on the top of my birthday cake. :-)

I think it started with Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte, but over the past half-dozen year or so, the available variety of pumpkin-flavored food has expanded beyond my wildest expectations ... at least from October through December of each year.

This poem is a testament to my undying love for the pumpkin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZiOyNx7vdI&t=6s


Will Dockery

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Dec 21, 2017, 2:39:07 PM12/21/17
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Early life remembrance is a fascinating thing... I only have several of those memories, but your ability seems more like Jack Kerouac, who remembered enough of early childhood to create an entire novel from his memories, "Visions of Gerard":

http://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Visions_of_Gerard_/_Jack_Kerouac

"Visions of Gerard focuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood as evidenced in the tragically short yet happy life of his older brother, Gerard. Kerouac paints a picture of the boy as a saint, who loves all creatures and teaches this doctrine to four-year-old Jack. Set in Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, it is a beautiful but unsettling exploration of the meaning and precariousness of existence..."

michaelmalef...@gmail.com

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Dec 21, 2017, 3:25:36 PM12/21/17
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Having been unable to get through very much of Kerouac's most famous work (due to sheer boredom), I'll have to pass on any of his lesser-knowns.

The inner processes of my early memories are rather strange, in that they're rarely immediately accessible until after having been brought back to the surface. I access them in similar to using a search engine, by zeroing in on a single object or event: "eggs," for instance, opens up competing memories of scrambled eggs, omelettes, fried eggs, deviled eggs, egg salad, Easter eggs, my neighbor's eggs from her chickens and geese, robins' eggs, chocolate eggs, and so on. I then select one of those options and
the process repeats: scrambled eggs opens up various memories of scrambled eggs, Easter eggs opens up various memories of Easter eggs, and so on. The further I pursue them, the more vivid and detailed they become. It can be a lengthy process as many of these memories have lain fallow for decades, but eventually they can nearly all be retrieved.

Will Dockery

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Dec 21, 2017, 3:34:27 PM12/21/17
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I'm seeing what you mean, and now that I'm running out of time, with logically only 40-50 years of life left, unless modern science develops fast enough to keep our generation alive longer, I need to get these earlier parts of the Shadowville Mythos down as well as the more fully explored later years.

Thanks for the inspiration for this...

michaelmalef...@gmail.com

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Dec 21, 2017, 4:35:25 PM12/21/17
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You're at least 5 years older than me ... do you really "logically" think you're going to live anywhere close to 110?

I betting I don't make 60, as my family is notoriously short-lived.

Based on what I know of your history with poverty, drugs, cigarettes and alcohol, I'd say you're looking at something around 70.

Dental River

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Dec 21, 2017, 4:43:32 PM12/21/17
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"Poet, singer, songwriter, kazooist, mathematician..."


Will Dockery

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Dec 21, 2017, 4:52:19 PM12/21/17
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You're only thinking you'll live, what, 5-6 more years, seriously?

Perhaps you have some health trouble I don't know about?

stephanpi...@gmail.com

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Dec 21, 2017, 4:53:18 PM12/21/17
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On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 12:25:36 PM UTC-8, paedo fraud expostulates

> > > I am somewhat unique in that I'm possessed with a nearly total recollection of my infancy and early childhood.
> The inner processes of my early memories are rather strange, in that they're rarely immediately accessible until after having been brought back to the surface. I access them in similar to using a search engine...

Shalom & Boker tov...one cannot accept seriously the pseudo-dialectic of this mantra from Our Lady of Perpetual Guilt... The self-aggrandising S&M is linked to his sophomoric fellatio with a blunt pencil, the concurrent absence of any talent. My advice to this fraud is to immerse himself in the writings of Thomas Szasz...

תמשיך ללכת, חתיכת פדופיל מזדיין.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
STEPHAN PICKERING / חפץ ח"ם בן אברהם
Torah אלילה Yehu'di Apikores / Philologia Kabbalistica Speculativa Researcher
לחיות זמן רב ולשגשג...לעולם לא עוד
THE KABBALAH FRACTALS PROJECT

Will Dockery

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Dec 21, 2017, 4:58:36 PM12/21/17
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I was mainly joking about the 110 year lifespan, but Leonard Cohen living to something like age 84 was an inspiration I wouldn't mind making...

Dental River

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Dec 21, 2017, 5:06:35 PM12/21/17
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On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 1:58:36 PM UTC-8, Will Dockery wrote:
> I was mainly joking about the 110 year lifespan, but Leonard Cohen living to something like age 84 was an inspiration I wouldn't mind making...

"Grammarian..."

michaelmalef...@gmail.com

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Dec 21, 2017, 5:26:49 PM12/21/17
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On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 4:52:19 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> You're only thinking you'll live, what, 5-6 more years, seriously?
>
> Perhaps you have some health trouble I don't know about?

My mother died at 43, my father at 58.

I'm 54.

If you average it out, I should've been dead 3 1/2 years ago.

michaelmalef...@gmail.com

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Dec 21, 2017, 5:27:22 PM12/21/17
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On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 4:53:18 PM UTC-5, stephanpi...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 12:25:36 PM UTC-8, paedo fraud expostulates
>
> > > > I am somewhat unique in that I'm possessed with a nearly total recollection of my infancy and early childhood.
> > The inner processes of my early memories are rather strange, in that they're rarely immediately accessible until after having been brought back to the surface. I access them in similar to using a search engine...
>
> Shalom & Boker tov...one cannot accept seriously the pseudo-dialectic of this mantra from Our Lady of Perpetual Guilt... The self-aggrandising S&M is linked to his sophomoric fellatio with a blunt pencil, the concurrent absence of any talent. My advice to this fraud is to immerse himself in the writings of Thomas Szasz...
>
> תמשיך ללכת, חתיכת פדופיל מזדיין.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Go fuck a pig.

Brooke

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Dec 21, 2017, 5:35:38 PM12/21/17
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> I'm seeing what you mean, and now that I'm running out of time, with logically only 4-5 years of life left

Fixed that for you.

Will Dockery

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Dec 21, 2017, 5:54:53 PM12/21/17
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That's grim...

We will miss you, Pendragon.

😢

stephanpi...@gmail.com

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Dec 21, 2017, 6:21:56 PM12/21/17
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On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 2:27:22 PM UTC-8, psychotic little girl stalker
writes from his toilet...
> Go fuck a pig.

Shalom & Erev tov...such a marvellous articulation of developed intellectuality, monosyllabic babbling. We genuflect to your minutiae of catholic SS irrelevance. Let me extrapolate: when tiring of your lies, do you turn on the pre-recorded applause?
תמשיך ללכת, חתיכת פדופיל מזדיין.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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michaelmalef...@gmail.com

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Dec 21, 2017, 9:46:55 PM12/21/17
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On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 6:21:56 PM UTC-5, stephanpi...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 2:27:22 PM UTC-8, psychotic little girl stalker
> writes from his toilet...
> > Go fuck a pig.
>
> Shalom & Erev tov...such a marvellous articulation of developed intellectuality, monosyllabic babbling. We genuflect to your minutiae of catholic SS irrelevance. Let me extrapolate: when tiring of your lies, do you turn on the pre-recorded applause?
> תמשיך ללכת, חתיכת פדופיל מזדיין.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Go fuck the entire sty.

Me

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Dec 21, 2017, 10:22:43 PM12/21/17
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Wild Turkey!
And steph, suck my cock while you fuck a pug!

Rachel

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Dec 22, 2017, 12:49:32 AM12/22/17
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Will Dockery

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Dec 22, 2017, 1:35:22 PM12/22/17
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"Rachel" wrote in message
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Ouch!

Will Dockery

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Dec 22, 2017, 1:36:27 PM12/22/17
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Pendragon wrote in message
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I'm aiming for a bit longer run than that, myself...


michaelmalef...@gmail.com

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Dec 22, 2017, 1:39:09 PM12/22/17
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Longer than 3 1/2 years ago? I should hope so.

Will Dockery

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Dec 22, 2017, 10:30:10 PM12/22/17
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Pendragon wrote in message
> news:9acc993b-f251-4bae...@googlegroups.com...
> On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 4:52:19 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>
> I'm aiming for a bit longer run than that, myself...

Longer than 3 1/2 years ago? I should hope so.

Okay, I thought you estimated about 5-6 years of life for yourself left.

Will Dockery

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Dec 22, 2017, 10:31:59 PM12/22/17
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Yes, that was what I was referring to, you may have 5-6 years left.

michaelmalef...@gmail.com

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Dec 22, 2017, 11:03:28 PM12/22/17
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That was quite a few posts before the one you'd responded to.

Yes, I hope we all have a bit longer than 5-6 years (Dunce and Pick excepted, of course).

Me

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Dec 22, 2017, 11:05:11 PM12/22/17
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It's not about how many years we have left to live,
It's about how much we live (and give of ourselves) in the moments we are given.

Will Dockery

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Dec 23, 2017, 4:21:35 AM12/23/17
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And hopefully even the current flame war you guys are caught up in will be winding down by then.

:)

George J. Dance

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Dec 23, 2017, 10:04:26 AM12/23/17
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On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 12:53:38 PM UTC-5, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> From that moment on, I've been drawn to all things pumpkin. Pumpkin-flavored candy, coffee, muffins, bagels, oatmeal, cookies, ice-cream, yogurt, jack-o'lanterns, costumes, photos, decorations, you name it. The year before last, my wife put 52 icing-pumpkins on the top of my birthday cake. :-)
>
> I think it started with Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte, but over the past half-dozen year or so, the available variety of pumpkin-flavored food has expanded beyond my wildest expectations ... at least from October through December of each year.
>
> This poem is a testament to my undying love for the pumpkin:
>
https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph59e635c45dc89


driveby

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Dec 23, 2017, 10:39:26 AM12/23/17
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Do you really think you should be posting a porn vid here.....you've been reported

Cujo DeSockpuppet

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Dec 23, 2017, 12:31:34 PM12/23/17
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"George J. Dance" <george...@yahoo.ca> wrote in
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A new low for you, George.

Stay classy.

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Will Dockery

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Mar 14, 2018, 1:18:31 PM3/14/18
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Pen wrote in message
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> I am somewhat unique in that I'm possessed with a nearly total
> recollection of my infancy and early childhood.

Interesting topic deserves a bump-ola.

mydemon...@gmail.com

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Mar 14, 2018, 1:52:16 PM3/14/18
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I see we've gone to full on Deflection mode again.

Will Dockery

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Mar 14, 2018, 1:55:18 PM3/14/18
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Preferable to your Full on Scumbaggery mode, Pen.

:)

mydemon...@gmail.com

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Mar 14, 2018, 2:19:39 PM3/14/18
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On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 1:55:18 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> Preferable to your Full on Scumbaggery mode, Pen.
>

No good deed goes unpunished.

Will Dockery

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Mar 14, 2018, 2:21:06 PM3/14/18
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I've sure learned that the hard way.

Michael Pendragon

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Mar 14, 2018, 2:27:39 PM3/14/18
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On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 2:21:06 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> I've sure learned that the hard way.

I know. Why just look at all the flack you've taken for altruistically dining on Zod's relief money.

Will Dockery

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Mar 14, 2018, 3:56:24 PM3/14/18
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Keep spewing your lies, Pendragon.

Meanwhile, my son and the family are waiting your apology.

Michael Pendragon

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Mar 14, 2018, 9:12:38 PM3/14/18
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On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 3:56:24 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> Keep spewing your lies, Pendragon.
>
> Meanwhile, my son and the family are waiting your apology.

Clay asked you to stop mentioning him here.

One should think that you would honor his request.

(Look out, Clay! Here comes another bus!)

drive-by

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Mar 14, 2018, 9:14:14 PM3/14/18
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Daddy dearest...

Will Dockery

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Mar 15, 2018, 1:21:53 AM3/15/18
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No, Pendragon, he was taking about you r lying and libelous satire that portrayed him in a malicious misrepresentation, in which you used his real name.

Of course he doesn't want that.

Michael Pendragon

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Mar 15, 2018, 8:05:51 AM3/15/18
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On Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 1:21:53 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> No, Pendragon, he was taking about you r lying and libelous satire that portrayed him in a malicious misrepresentation, in which you used his real name.
>
> Of course he doesn't want that.

What is so malicious about "gay," Will? Would it bother you if your son were to come out of the closet?

Will Dockery

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Mar 15, 2018, 8:12:10 AM3/15/18
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No, but I would still object to what would THEN be your homophobic attack on him, using his real name.

Nothing about him "seems" gay, though... but of course the same was said about Rock Hudson, I grant you.

My son reminds me more of a Woody Allen style New Yorker than, say, a Studio 54 type New Yorker, though.

drive-by

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Mar 15, 2018, 8:19:35 AM3/15/18
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Kinda glad we didn't met for lunch...me being so very handsome

Michael Pendragon

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Mar 15, 2018, 8:22:45 AM3/15/18
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I should think Clay would rather be thought of as gay than as a pedophile.

Will Dockery

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Mar 15, 2018, 8:37:24 AM3/15/18
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Point taken.

ALL the "child molestation" accusations are offensive, but Pickering kept it obscure enough in his poem that the section that lampooned you slipped by me.

Still, attacking my son to try and hurt me was wrong, you know that, Pendragon.

Will Dockery

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Mar 15, 2018, 8:40:14 AM3/15/18
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Jim, under less negative circumstances, the idea of "Doctor Who meets Woody the Bartender" would be a blast, though.

😀

hierony...@gmail.com

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Mar 15, 2018, 8:41:24 AM3/15/18
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Take it to FB.

mydemon...@gmail.com

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Mar 15, 2018, 8:45:59 AM3/15/18
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Will went to McDonald's with Sarah, his daughter
And Sarah asked Will what Will would like to order?
Will ate a Big Mac, Quarter Pounder with cheese
Six orders of fries, supersized if you please
A thick choc'late shake and a hot apple pie.
Brother Dave ate McBiscuits and let out a sigh
Of delight Will slipped his hand into Dave's fly.

mydemon...@gmail.com

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Mar 15, 2018, 8:49:11 AM3/15/18
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> Of delight as Will slipped his hand into Dave's fly.

Oops! Left out a metrically important "as" there.

Here's the corrected edit:

> Will went to McDonald's with Sarah, his daughter
> And Sarah asked Will what Will would like to order?
> Will ate a Big Mac, Quarter Pounder with cheese
> Six orders of fries, supersized if you please
> A thick choc'late shake and a hot apple pie.
> Brother Dave ate McBiscuits and let out a sigh
> Of delight as Will slipped his hand into Dave's fly.

drive-by

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Mar 15, 2018, 8:51:19 AM3/15/18
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On Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 8:45:59 AM UTC-4, mydemon...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sorry...I just busted a laugh...

Damn of all the days, today I must work...this seems like way too much fun..

Will Dockery

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Mar 15, 2018, 11:27:07 PM3/15/18
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"drive-by" wrote in message
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> Kinda glad we didn't met for lunch...

Carry bail money with you.

:)

drive-by

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Mar 15, 2018, 11:37:05 PM3/15/18
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Wow fat fuck.....are you paying taxes this year? They frown upon not reporting income....and you talk to me about bail money..careful fat fuck, report those pizza tips...

Will Dockery

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Mar 15, 2018, 11:42:15 PM3/15/18
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Talk about baggy eyes...

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/pennyspoetry/images/8/8f/Jim_Senetto.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180316033947

Jim Senetto, the world's greatest Woody harrelson look alike.

Heh...

Will Dockery

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Mar 17, 2018, 12:29:25 AM3/17/18
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I was mainly joking about the 110 year lifespan, but Leonard Cohen living to
something like age 84 was an inspiration I wouldn't mind making...

Leonard Cohen - Darkness
>
> https://youtu.be/i-TsAaEeE-w

One of the greatest, and never stopped working, right to the last day he was
writing a new set of poems and songs.

Last night I saw a friend who I haven't seen in a little while gave me a
late Christmas present, one of the coolest little books I've ever owned:

--------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.leonardcohenforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=22935

New book: Poems and Songs - Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

Will Dockery

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Mar 17, 2018, 1:14:51 AM3/17/18
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Obsess on, slurpers.

😀

drive-by

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Mar 17, 2018, 1:48:50 AM3/17/18
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On Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 1:14:51 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> Obsess on, slurpers.
>
> 😀

Fat Fuck, face it...you look older than me....you slump...you ramble, you're filthy....you have no one...you live with flash backs...you're wife ran from you as you waited looking at the pretty colors...and where did all this get you, hayseed..? It got you flopping in your brothers house...still holding the fake Jews document...grabbing free coffee and WiFi..and you seriously think there is not one thing wrong with that..you will end your days in Potter's Field...where most unfortunates end their days...so where do you think it all went wrong? The first tab, most likely...you're laughed at, ridiculed, thought of as a pompous ass...now you have Michael supposedly dressing up as your son dresses up...although Michael fits his life style while your son just wants to disappear into some one else...any one, from a pony to Spock....your daughter has moved on, married with kids...there is another you don't talk much about, for some reason...I pity you, pity the way you think life should be, while all along, all you have is this silly group...your pretend admirers, that most don't give a fuck about you....Seriously, how can you pretend to be happy....keep looking at my photo..altering it as one would slash at a photo with a knife, in hatred. Your mind is gone Fat Fuck....at 59, your mind is finished with new thought, holding on to yesterday, for without yesterday, you have nothing left....and yesterday was meaningless, as you've told use through words and refection...so that brings us to a full life of nothing, as of now...you could change that, with a little self reflection...One day all will be gone, as you sit at the coffee shop and realize how fast it all has been....and realize you've attained nothing...believe it or not, I feel sorry for you. So Fat Fuck...alter my picture all you want...you only do that because you can't alter your life...go back in time and make it all good. You've left a trail of unhappiness, surly that must affect your very being...Now sit through the night and talk to the screen where all your dreams reside...keep in mind, though, this is a make-believe world, right here...easy to face.

Goodnight.

Will Dockery

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Mar 17, 2018, 1:54:53 AM3/17/18
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On Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 1:48:50 AM UTC-4, drive-by wrote:
>
> you look older than me....

Oh, really:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/pennyspoetry/images/8/8f/Jim_Senetto.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180316033947

I think you are delusional, or just such a bragging cyberbully that you believe your own lies.

I mean, just look at yourself 15 years ago, your eyes are drooping with bags, you have a unibrow growing haywire, your nose looks like the mascot for the University of Georgia...

I would continue, but you should feel lucky to be compared with Woody the Cheers bartender.

Good night, old pal... you do need some rest, obviously.

:)

Chafetz Chayim benAvraham

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Mar 17, 2018, 2:00:03 AM3/17/18
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holding the fake Jews document...

The shtar giyur has been authentic/ated since 1972. The original is in my possession hanging on my office wall. Will Dockery has a copy authenticated 28 February 2018. I tire of the bullshit libel, and the bullshit insinuations. I have never questioned that the writer of this attack is a catholic, never have called him a 'fake catholic'. It is to be stopped now.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
STEPHAN PICKERING / חפץ ח"ם בן אברהם
Torah אלילה Yehu'di Apikores / Philologia Kabbalistica Speculativa Researcher
לחיות זמן רב ולשגשג...לעולם לא עוד
THE KABBALAH FRACTALS PROJECT

Will Dockery

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Mar 17, 2018, 2:03:58 AM3/17/18
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"Michael Pendragon" wrote in message
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> Zod

Look at this, it must be Zodmania...

Heh.

Will Dockery

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Mar 17, 2018, 2:07:42 AM3/17/18
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Pendragon wrote in message
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> Will Dockery wrote:
>
> You're only thinking you'll live, what, 5-6 more years, seriously?
>
> Perhaps you have some health trouble I don't know about?

My mother died at 43, my father at 58.

I'm 54.

If you average it out, I should've been dead 3 1/2 years ago.

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But careful on June 28th, perhaps, Sgt. Pen.

Will Dockery

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Mar 17, 2018, 2:08:54 AM3/17/18
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Oh, you know how Jim is, Stephan.

Overlook the poor senile slob...

:)

Will Dockery

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Mar 26, 2018, 8:02:35 AM3/26/18
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Art imitating like imitating art...
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