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Smoky and Cold / poem by Will Dockery
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Will Dockery
Dec 15, 2017, 5:42:24 AM12/15/17
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Smoky and Cold
A cask of bootleg watermelon wine
I was checking on it this morning.
Down in the cellar
where the green grass grows.
Playing with silver
smoky and cold
and there's no place to go.
I kind of like it out here
though everything is crowded.
Truck drivers and highways
all depends on what you see.
Step into the big room
I'm over by the back table.
I know you don't want to know
but she was at this very table.
We talked about the music
and we talked about the war.
She's a wandering ghost lady
we've all seen her before.
She's always quick witted and timeless
the way all good dead people are.
Passing down the street
where they made that movie.
In some ways it was my fault
I was much too lacking.
She had the mythology right
I was the one who was lacking.
I prefer the overcast skies
and coolness
I prefer to be alone.
Staring across the field to the hotel
from my restaurant window.
She came from the sticks
where the pine trees grow.
Stark Avenue was the drop off point
the little family home.
I think Henry has the film
but the script is with me.
A GI on the run for murder
he feels like ending it all.
No one knows if he really did it
but he's got to run anyway.
She knows him from life
gently waving
she gives a smile.
I said
I didn't know ghosts could sleep.
She said some just sleep forever
but she usually forgets.
It was snowing when I saw her
but she was out there in the Midland.
It had been yeas
but there she was kind of floating.
Out there with the snowflakes
out there among the pines.
-Will Dockery
.
A cask of bootleg watermelon wine
I was checking on it this morning.
Down in the cellar
where the green grass grows.
Playing with silver
smoky and cold
and there's no place to go.
I kind of like it out here
though everything is crowded.
Truck drivers and highways
all depends on what you see.
Step into the big room
I'm over by the back table.
I know you don't want to know
but she was at this very table.
We talked about the music
and we talked about the war.
She's a wandering ghost lady
we've all seen her before.
She's always quick witted and timeless
the way all good dead people are.
Passing down the street
where they made that movie.
In some ways it was my fault
I was much too lacking.
She had the mythology right
I was the one who was lacking.
I prefer the overcast skies
and coolness
I prefer to be alone.
Staring across the field to the hotel
from my restaurant window.
She came from the sticks
where the pine trees grow.
Stark Avenue was the drop off point
the little family home.
I think Henry has the film
but the script is with me.
A GI on the run for murder
he feels like ending it all.
No one knows if he really did it
but he's got to run anyway.
She knows him from life
gently waving
she gives a smile.
I said
I didn't know ghosts could sleep.
She said some just sleep forever
but she usually forgets.
It was snowing when I saw her
but she was out there in the Midland.
It had been yeas
but there she was kind of floating.
Out there with the snowflakes
out there among the pines.
-Will Dockery
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Will Dockery
Dec 17, 2017, 1:39:57 AM12/17/17
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On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 11:32:39 PM UTC-5,
michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 3:45:28 AM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 12:37:24 AM UTC-5,
> > michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > homemade wine (which I used to make back when I was too young to buy
> > > alcohol), but "bootleg" is usually reserved for liquor.
> >
> > Well, you must have never lived in, or heard of, a "Dry County", a
> > county in the United States whose government forbids the sale of any
> > kind of alcoholic beverages.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county
> >
> > "...Some prohibit off-premises sale, some prohibit on-premises sale, and
> > some prohibit both. Hundreds of dry counties exist across the United
> > States, a majority of them in the South. A number of smaller
> > jurisdictions also exist, such as cities, towns, and townships, which
> > prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages. These are known as dry cities,
> > dry towns, or dry townships."
> >
> > Note that not just liquor, but these local governments "forbid the sale
> > of any kind of alcoholic beverages."
> >
> > And so it goes, with "bootleg wine".
>
> Yeah, you *can* bootleg anything. There are bootleg cassette tapes of
> rock concerts, bootleg videotapes of first-run movies, bootleg copies of
> DVDs, and so one.
>
> But just because you *can* make or import wine in a "dry town," doesn't
> mean that "bootleg" should be applied.
If the wine was made and sold, distributed, it would be some bootleg wine, I
am pretty sure, Michael.
michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 3:45:28 AM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 12:37:24 AM UTC-5,
> > michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Friday, December 15, 2017 at 10:42:24 AM UTC, Will Dockery wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Smoky and Cold
> > > >
> > > > A cask of bootleg watermelon wine
> > >
> > > I don't believe there is such a thing as "bootleg wine." There's
> > >
> > > > > Smoky and Cold
> > > >
> > > > A cask of bootleg watermelon wine
> > >
> > > homemade wine (which I used to make back when I was too young to buy
> > > alcohol), but "bootleg" is usually reserved for liquor.
> >
> > Well, you must have never lived in, or heard of, a "Dry County", a
> > county in the United States whose government forbids the sale of any
> > kind of alcoholic beverages.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county
> >
> > "...Some prohibit off-premises sale, some prohibit on-premises sale, and
> > some prohibit both. Hundreds of dry counties exist across the United
> > States, a majority of them in the South. A number of smaller
> > jurisdictions also exist, such as cities, towns, and townships, which
> > prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages. These are known as dry cities,
> > dry towns, or dry townships."
> >
> > Note that not just liquor, but these local governments "forbid the sale
> > of any kind of alcoholic beverages."
> >
> > And so it goes, with "bootleg wine".
>
> Yeah, you *can* bootleg anything. There are bootleg cassette tapes of
> rock concerts, bootleg videotapes of first-run movies, bootleg copies of
> DVDs, and so one.
>
> But just because you *can* make or import wine in a "dry town," doesn't
> mean that "bootleg" should be applied.
If the wine was made and sold, distributed, it would be some bootleg wine, I
am pretty sure, Michael.
Will Dockery
Dec 21, 2017, 11:51:03 AM12/21/17
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Stephan Pickering wrote in message
news:ebbbca29-7488-42c5...@googlegroups.com...
Once again, we are subjected to your bullshit semantic pirouettes...all
derived from your twisted, fabricating aliases. You have never published;
you cannot write; you creates events/dates/interpretations with no grasp of
the actual facts because they are barred to you. Should I continue? For
years, I have witnessed (as have others) your nonsense. You disguise your
bigoted anti-intellectual/antisemitic malice behind self-anointed
messianism. You, NaziGene, are a lying, child abusing fraud. גיין באַרען זיך
Should I mention the hospital records in storage indicating you are the
product of a botched 1954 abortion?
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Thanks for reading and commenting, Stephan.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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
news:ebbbca29-7488-42c5...@googlegroups.com...
Once again, we are subjected to your bullshit semantic pirouettes...all
derived from your twisted, fabricating aliases. You have never published;
you cannot write; you creates events/dates/interpretations with no grasp of
the actual facts because they are barred to you. Should I continue? For
years, I have witnessed (as have others) your nonsense. You disguise your
bigoted anti-intellectual/antisemitic malice behind self-anointed
messianism. You, NaziGene, are a lying, child abusing fraud. גיין באַרען זיך
Should I mention the hospital records in storage indicating you are the
product of a botched 1954 abortion?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for reading and commenting, Stephan.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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
Jan 9, 2018, 11:16:28 PM1/9/18
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Corey wrote in message
news:45385a56-1573-4964...@googlegroups.com...
>
> FUBAR, Stephan, FUBAR.
And your point is..?
news:45385a56-1573-4964...@googlegroups.com...
>
> FUBAR, Stephan, FUBAR.
And your point is..?
Will Dockery
Mar 16, 2018, 6:58:25 PM3/16/18
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"Chafetz Chayim benAvraham" wrote in message
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>
> Keep walking
"Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all." -Springsteen
news:de397525-c95c-4cdf...@googlegroups.com...
>
> Keep walking
"Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all." -Springsteen
Will Dockery
Mar 31, 2019, 11:20:16 PM3/31/19
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Thanks for reading and commenting, everyone.
Will Dockery
Oct 29, 2019, 12:34:27 AM10/29/19
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Found in the Drafts file, an unwritten post.
General-Zod
Aug 8, 2022, 4:45:20 PM8/8/22
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Will Dockery wrote:
>
> Found in the Drafts file, an unwritten post.
I wonder if this will attach to a thread..?
>
> Found in the Drafts file, an unwritten post.
One post only showing on NOVA..
W-Dockery
Aug 10, 2022, 6:59:24 AM8/10/22
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🙂
Victor H.
Oct 4, 2022, 11:25:42 PM10/4/22
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W-Dockery
Oct 8, 2022, 4:35:03 PM10/8/22
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Let's try it again.
🙂
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