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On Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 5:24:59 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> Opera Positions
>
> This is a moving studio
> motion
> you`re independent.
>
> I`m holed up with Search Boy again
> sniffing the heroine.
>
> From the room
> where Bodeen is sleeping
> to a hundred year old
> building downtown
> a mathematical structure.
>
> Jack Burlington
> in his land of crack head hos
> his holy mass.
>
> Touches of exile
> in this squalid box
> brandishing browdsword.
>
> Locked away
> at the edge of the world
> sealed on a cliff.
>
> Tomorrow always closing in
> shut down future.
>
> Opera positions
> in the front seat
> formalities
> forward.
>
> Doc Pendleton
> running on empty
> pacing
> placing
> fleeing
> accelerating,
> vacant broadcast.
>
> Seeing what it`s like
> to be old again
> aged vision
> youth drugs played out.
>
> A date with an empathetic expanse
> like the portrait of Dorian Grey.
>
> Silhouette shadow lady
> your tender river hands.
>
> He remembered the harmonicas of Ed Gray
> The years of this separation.
>
> I feel green like Jack Midnight
> The freedom
> the crushing loneliness of freedom.
>
> Tomorrow closing in again
> never get blessed with a memory lapse.
>
> Opera positions
> in the front seat
> we`ve lost the passion.
>
> Studio house with no lights
> concubine by candle light.
>
> Stacks of art books
> and furniture
> sex sleep.
>
> Having a bad day in a bad year
> mischief in the neighborhood
> generation of the Hood.
>
> Sinister figures in the paintings
> she`s devious
> her nose is covered.
>
> Sinister friends breaking and entering
> lap dance pirouette.
>
> This school
> is destroying my poetry
> and the cranking power
> of this honky-tonk.
>
> Or is it just boxing it in
> with discipline
> feeling like a punch drunk lumberjack.
>
> I`m not doing words of some rich soap opera
> some blue velvet candybox
> I`m right here in the streets.
>
> -Will Dockery (1997)
>
> ----
> From the Shadowville Mythos poetry blog:
>
https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
Lets run it thru BARD and see what comes out...!
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