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Re: Shambles / Will Dockery

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 by: Will Dockery - Wed, 23 Nov 2022 22:15 UTC

blackpo...@aol.com wrote:
> Zod wrote:
> > Will Dockery wrote:
>
> > > Shambles
> >
> > > Yes, the "Richard Pryor" looking guy was somewhat interesting,
> > > except that he was so drunk he was drooling.
> > > He either thought I looked like Mark Twain or Gene Wilder,
> > > sitting on the bench on Broadway at Midnight, typing.
> >
> > > He seemed to think we were from the same home area,
> > > somewhere around Kentucky,
> > > and then North oats",
> > > all these in Carolina,
> > > where his family worked on "crab boats".
> >
> > > All these short stories and his 1970s comedy asides,
> > > the out of the side of his mouth political jabs and so on,
> > > were pretty entertaining,
> > > as I just sat there and typed,
> > > playing the white straight man type,
> > > like in Stir Crazy and Silver Streak,
> > > wild Einstein afro hair flapping in the breeze.
> >
> > > That went okay for a few minutes
> > > until Pryor knocked over my coffee,
> > > seemed to be embarrassed about that,
> > > and wandered away,
> > > on up the sidewalk.
> >
> > > Then when a crack hooker chick
> > > in real shambles came along,
> > > offered to blow me right there for five bucks,
> > > I decided that along with the chilly breeze on my back,
> > > perhaps it was time to pack it up for the night.
> >
> > > I wanted dark, I got dark.
> >
> > > -Will Dockery 2017
> >
> > This one is standing up to be a classic...
> What do you expect

True, it is one of my better reality based poems... yes, based on real events in my life.

HTH and HAND.

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