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Re: Looked All Over / Will Dockery (1983)

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Subject: Re: Looked All Over / Will Dockery (1983)
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by: Will Dockery - Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:22 UTC

Roger Delaney wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>
> > Looked All Over
> >
> > Walked through the rain
> > to the telephone
> > it was cold outside
> > winter
> > you know
> > so I knew
> > it would be this way.
> >
> > I was looking out
> > that busted up window
> > and knew
> > that the phone call
> > was needed
> > but it was cold outside
> > and raining.
> >
> > Got blown
> > by that misty rain
> > driven off days
> > to find her
> > but she was
> > as missing as possible.
> >
> > Tried every place
> > I could think of
> > which in hindsight
> > was not that many.
> > I forget sometimes
> > just how big a city can be.
> > She was missing
> > Possibly insane.
> >
> > I even talked with her dad
> > who said nothing.
> > I looked all over
> > couldn't see
> > the forest for the trees.
> > I looked all over
> > a frozen wall of emotions
> > between then and me.
> > I looked all over
> > but it was actually over
> > before I even began.
> >
> > Heated up a can of soup
> > in the apartment.
> > Stirred in some
> > bizarre leftovers.
> > There was
> > a knock on my door.
> > It was Berg
> > who was cackling and crazed
> > laughing about somebody
> > who had given him a ride.
> >
> > I had to go to the telephone
> > into the rain
> > to try and find her.
> >
> > I talked to the police
> > who could only speak of death.
> > I looked all over
> > looked up to the sky
> > as the rain came down.
> > I looked all over
> > watched the searchlights
> > at the used car lot.
> > I looked all over
> > would have been nice,
> > to know
> > what her family knew.
> >
> > -Will Dockery 1983
>
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