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 Gray.

Silhouette shadow lady
your tender river hands.

He remembered the harmonicas of Ed Grey
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

...

On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 5:25:13 PM UTC-4, W.Dockery wrote:
> Opera Positions
>
> This is

= snip
Complete crap.

On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:23:21 PM UTC-4, Family Guy wrote:
> On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 5:25:13 PM UTC-4, W.Dockery wrote:
>
> > Opera Positions

https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html

> >
> > This is
>
> = snip =
>
> Complete

So you claim that you actually read it?

On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:54:53 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:23:21 PM UTC-4, Family Guy wrote:
> > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 5:25:13 PM UTC-4, W.Dockery wrote:
> >
> > > Opera Positions
> https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> > >
> > > This is
> >
> > = snip =
> >
> > Complete
> So you claim that you actually read it?

I don't need to bite into a slice of moldy bread to know that it tastes bad, Donkey.

On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:57:17 PM UTC-4, Family Guy wrote:
> On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:54:53 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:23:21 PM UTC-4, Family Guy wrote:
> > > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 5:25:13 PM UTC-4, W.Dockery wrote:
>
> > > > Opera Positions
>
> https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> > > >
> > > > This is
> > >
> > > = snip =
> > >
> > > Complete
> > So you claim that you actually read it?
> I don't need to

Of course not, you're just here to troll, not to read poetry.

🙂

On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:57:17 PM UTC-4, Family Guy wrote:
> > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:54:53 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:23:21 PM UTC-4, Family Guy wrote:
> > > > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 5:25:13 PM UTC-4, W.Dockery wrote:
> >
> > > > > Opera Positions
> >
> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> > > > >
> > > > > This is
> > > >
> > > > = snip =
> > > >
> > > > Complete
> > > So you claim that you actually read it?
> > I don't need to
> Of course not, you're just here to troll, not to read poetry.

If you ever manage to post some, perhaps he'll give it a read.

Michael Pendragon wrote:

> On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:57:17 PM UTC-4, Family Guy wrote:
>> > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:54:53 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> > > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:23:21 PM UTC-4, Family Guy wrote:
>> > > > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 5:25:13 PM UTC-4, W.Dockery wrote:
>> >
>> > > > > Opera Positions
>> >
>> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
>> > > > >
>> > > > > This is
>> > > >
>> > > > = snip =
>> > > >
>> > > > Complete
>> > > So you claim that you actually read it?
>> > I don't need to
>> Of course not, you're just here to troll, not to read poetry.

> If you ever manage xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Troll much, Pendragon?

🙂

On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 3:05:12 AM UTC-4, W.Dockery wrote:
> Michael Pendragon wrote:
>
> > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> >> On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:57:17 PM UTC-4, Family Guy wrote:
> >> > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:54:53 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> >> > > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:23:21 PM UTC-4, Family Guy wrote:
> >> > > > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 5:25:13 PM UTC-4, W.Dockery wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > > > Opera Positions
> >> >
> >> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > This is
> >> > > >
> >> > > > = snip =
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Complete
> >> > > So you claim that you actually read it?
> >> > I don't need to
> >> Of course not, you're just here to troll, not to read poetry.
> > If you ever manage xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
>
> Troll much, Pendragon?

I'm just pointing out the fact that you are incapable of writing poetry.

Your writing is unintelligible gibberish: rambling, incoherent, grammatically inept, and boring as hell.

You've written *one* poem... and several hundred garbled song lyrics that wouldn't even make coherent prose.

If you want to be a poet, you need to first learn the basics of sentence composition, develop a vocabulary (you have only a vague, half-understanding of pretty much every word in the dictionary), and understand the difference between poetry (which touches on universal, abstract themes) and the drug-addled memories of an uneducated, unemployed redneck.

As always, HtH & HAND.

Michael Pendragon wrote:
> On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>
> > >> > > > > Opera Positions
> > >> >
> > >> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
>
> you are incapable of writing poetry

Good thing you're not qualified to make such a judgement.

HTH and HAND.

🙂

On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:06:33 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> >
> > > >> > > > > Opera Positions
> > > >> >
> > > >> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> >
> > you are incapable of writing poetry
> Good thing you're not qualified to make such a judgement.
>
> HTH and HAND.

But I am qualified, Donkey.

I have a college education, have worked professionally as an English tutor, an assistant editor, edited my college's art & literary magazine, and have edited/published several literary magazines and multi-authored books of my own.

On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:20:50 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:06:33 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > >
> > > > >> > > > > Opera Positions
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> > >
> > > you are incapable of writing poetry
> > Good thing you're not qualified to make such a judgement.
> >
> > HTH and HAND.
> But I am

You're a delusional fool who thinks he's a better poet than T.S. Eliot.

In other words a fuckwitted control freak in an ego trip.

HTH and HAND

On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:28:20 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:20:50 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:06:33 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > >> > > > > Opera Positions
> > > > > >> >
> > > > > >> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> > > >
> > > > you are incapable of writing poetry
> > > Good thing you're not qualified to make such a judgement.
> > >
> > > HTH and HAND.
> > But I am
> You're a delusional fool who thinks he's a better poet than T.S. Eliot.
>
> In other words a fuckwitted control freak in an ego trip.

What has thinking I'm a better poet than T.S. Eliot got to do with being a control freak, Donkey?

On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:40:18 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:28:20 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:20:50 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:06:33 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > >> > > > > Opera Positions
> > > > > > >> >
> > > > > > >> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> > > > >
> > > > > you are incapable of writing poetry
> > > > Good thing you're not qualified to make such a judgement.
> > > >
> > > > HTH and HAND.
> > > But I am
> > You're a delusional fool who thinks he's a better poet than T.S. Eliot.
> >
> > In other words a fuckwitted control freak in an ego trip.
> What has thinking I'm a better poet than T.S. Eliot got to do with being a control freak

Just pointing out two of your most obvious flaws, Pendragon.

HTH and HAND.

On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 1:05:34 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:40:18 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:28:20 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:20:50 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:06:33 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > > > On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > >> > > > > Opera Positions
> > > > > > > >> >
> > > > > > > >> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > you are incapable of writing poetry
> > > > > Good thing you're not qualified to make such a judgement.
> > > > >
> > > > > HTH and HAND.
> > > > But I am
> > > You're a delusional fool who thinks he's a better poet than T.S. Eliot.
> > >
> > > In other words a fuckwitted control freak in an ego trip.
> > What has thinking I'm a better poet than T.S. Eliot got to do with being a control freak
> Just pointing out two of your most obvious flaws, Pendragon.

The only "flaw" with any relevance to the above, is your flawed use of the English language.

You wrote: "In other words a fuckwitted control freak in an ego trip."

We'll ignore the obvious fact that your statement lacks a subject and is therefore not an actual sentence, and concentrate on your opening prepositional phrase.

"In other words" is "—used to introduce a statement that repeats what has been said in a different and usually a simpler or more exact way."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20other%20words

"In other words a fuckwitted control freak in an ego trip" is *not* a repetition of your previous remark that "You're a delusional fool who thinks he's a better poet than T.S. Eliot."

In other words, you don't understand what "in other words" actually means.

This is further proof that anyone who possesses a 4th Grade level, or higher, education is amply qualified to dismiss your writing as "unintelligible gibberish."

Michael Pendragon wrote:
> On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:28:20 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:20:50 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:06:33 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > >> On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>
> > > > > > > >> > > > > Opera Positions
> > > > > > > >> >
> > > > > > > >> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > you are incapable of writing poetry
> > > > > Good thing you're not qualified to make such a judgement.
> > > > >
> > > > > HTH and HAND.
> > > > But I am
> > > You're a delusional fool who thinks he's a better poet than T.S. Eliot.
> > >
> > >> In other words a fuckwitted control freak in an ego trip.
>
> >> What has thinking I'm a better poet than T.S. Eliot got to do with being a control freak
>
>> Just pointing out two of your most obvious flaws, Pendragon.
>
>> HTH and HAND.
>
> The only flaw

I didn't expect you to admit it, after all, you're delusional.

🙂

On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 2:28:17 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:28:20 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:20:50 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:06:33 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > >> On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> >
> > > > > > > > >> > > > > Opera Positions
> > > > > > > > >> >
> > > > > > > > >> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > you are incapable of writing poetry
> > > > > > Good thing you're not qualified to make such a judgement.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > HTH and HAND.
> > > > > But I am
> > > > You're a delusional fool who thinks he's a better poet than T.S. Eliot.
> > > >
> > > >> In other words a fuckwitted control freak in an ego trip.
> >
> > >> What has thinking I'm a better poet than T.S. Eliot got to do with being a control freak
> >
> >> Just pointing out two of your most obvious flaws, Pendragon.
> >
> >> HTH and HAND.
> >
> > The only flaw
>
> I didn't expect you to admit it, after all, you're delusional.

I'm not so delusion as to think that accusing someone of thinking their a better poet than Eliot is another way of saying that they're a control freak..

Words matter.

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 Gray.

> Silhouette shadow lady
> your tender river hands.

> He remembered the harmonicas of Ed Grey
> 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

> ...

Excekllent use of both Beat poetry tropes and confessional poetry style there, Doc... I am liking this one greatly...

General-Zod wrote:

> 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 Gray.

>> Silhouette shadow lady
>> your tender river hands.

>> He remembered the harmonicas of Ed Grey
>> 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

>> ...

> Excekllent use of both Beat poetry tropes and confessional poetry style there, Doc... I am liking this one greatly...

Thanks again for the nod, Zod.

🙂

On Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 12:15:14 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> General-Zod wrote:
> > 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 Gray.
>
> >> Silhouette shadow lady
> >> your tender river hands.
>
> >> He remembered the harmonicas of Ed Grey
> >> 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
>
> >> ...
>
> > Excekllent use of both Beat poetry tropes and confessional poetry style there, Doc... I am liking this one greatly...
> Thanks again for the nod, Zod.

It is a good time to get some decent poetry up in this place to read every once in a while...!

Faraway Star wrote:

> On Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 12:15:14 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> General-Zod wrote:
>> > 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 Gray.
>>
>> >> Silhouette shadow lady
>> >> your tender river hands.
>>
>> >> He remembered the harmonicas of Ed Grey
>> >> 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
>>
>> >> ...
>>
>> > Excekllent use of both Beat poetry tropes and confessional poetry style there, Doc... I am liking this one greatly...
>> Thanks again for the nod, Zod.

> It is a good time to get some decent poetry up in this place to read every once in a while...!

Thanks again for reading and commenting.

On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 5:14:36 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 2:28:17 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:28:20 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:20:50 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:06:33 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > > Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > > >> On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > >
> > > > > > > > > >> > > > > Opera Positions
> > > > > > > > > >> >
> > > > > > > > > >> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > you are incapable of writing poetry
> > > > > > > Good thing you're not qualified to make such a judgement.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > HTH and HAND.
> > > > > > But I am
> > > > > You're a delusional fool who thinks he's a better poet than T.S. Eliot.
> > > > >
> > > > >> In other words a fuckwitted control freak in an ego trip.
> > >
> > > >> What has thinking I'm a better poet than T.S. Eliot got to do with being a control freak
> > >
> > >> Just pointing out two of your most obvious flaws, Pendragon.
> > >
> > >> HTH and HAND.
> > >
> > > The only flaw
> >
> > I didn't expect you to admit it, after all, you're delusional.
> I'm not so delusion as to think that accusing someone of thinking their a better poet than Eliot is another way of saying that they're a control freak.

Those were two different examples.

On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 4:09:21 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 5:14:36 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 2:28:17 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > > >> > > > > Opera Positions
> > > > > > > > > > >> >
> > > > > > > > > > >> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > you are incapable of writing poetry
> > > > > > > > Good thing you're not qualified to make such a judgement.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > HTH and HAND.
> > > > > > > But I am
> > > > > > You're a delusional fool who thinks he's a better poet than T.S.. Eliot.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> In other words a fuckwitted control freak in an ego trip.
> > > >
> > > > >> What has thinking I'm a better poet than T.S. Eliot got to do with being a control freak
> > > >
> > > >> Just pointing out two of your most obvious flaws, Pendragon.
> > > >
> > > >> HTH and HAND.
> > > >
> > > > The only flaw
> > >
> > > I didn't expect you to admit it, after all, you're delusional.
> > I'm not so delusion as to think that accusing someone of thinking their a better poet than Eliot is another way of saying that they're a control freak.
> Those were two different examples.

Pen seems to be in a tizzy of confusion tonight.... ha ha.

On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 4:09:21 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 5:14:36 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 2:28:17 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:28:20 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:20:50 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 12:06:33 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > > > Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > > > >> On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > > > > > >> > > > > Opera Positions
> > > > > > > > > > >> >
> > > > > > > > > > >> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > you are incapable of writing poetry
> > > > > > > > Good thing you're not qualified to make such a judgement.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > HTH and HAND.
> > > > > > > But I am
> > > > > > You're a delusional fool who thinks he's a better poet than T.S.. Eliot.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> In other words a fuckwitted control freak in an ego trip.
> > > >
> > > > >> What has thinking I'm a better poet than T.S. Eliot got to do with being a control freak
> > > >
> > > >> Just pointing out two of your most obvious flaws, Pendragon.
> > > >
> > > >> HTH and HAND.
> > > >
> > > > The only flaw
> > >
> > > I didn't expect you to admit it, after all, you're delusional.
> > I'm not so delusion as to think that accusing someone of thinking their a better poet than Eliot is another way of saying that they're a control freak.
> Those were two different examples.

Do you understand the basic principles of logic [rhetorical question for obvious reasons]?

"In other words" means that you are restating *the same thing* (that I think I'm a better poet than T.S. Eliot) in a different way (that I'm a "control freak").

Logic works on an if/then formula.

According to your Donkey logic (above): If MMP believes he's a better poet than TSE, then he is necessarily a control freak.

There's no logical connection between the "if" and the "then," which renders the equation meaningless.

How stupid can one Donkey be?

On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 6:42:36 PM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 4:09:21 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 5:14:36 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 2:28:17 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> >
> > > > > > > > > > > >> > > > > Opera Positions
> > > > > > > > > > > >> >
> > > > > > > > > > > >> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > you are incapable of writing poetry
> > > > > > > > > Good thing you're not qualified to make such a judgement.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > HTH and HAND.
> > > > > > > > But I am
> > > > > > > You're a delusional fool who thinks he's a better poet than T..S. Eliot.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >> In other words a fuckwitted control freak in an ego trip.
> > > > >
> > > > > >> What has thinking I'm a better poet than T.S. Eliot got to do with being a control freak
> > > > >
> > > > >> Just pointing out two of your most obvious flaws, Pendragon.
> > > > >
> > > > >> HTH and HAND.
> > > > >
> > > > > The only flaw
> > > >
> > > > I didn't expect you to admit it, after all, you're delusional.
> > > I'm not so delusion as to think that accusing someone of thinking their a better poet than Eliot is another way of saying that they're a control freak.
> > Those were two different examples.
> Pen seems to be in a tizzy of confusion tonight.... ha ha.

Nothing really new for Pendragon.

🙂

On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 9:47:31 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 5:14:36 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 2:28:17 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > > > Opera Positions

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 Gray.

Silhouette shadow lady
your tender river hands.

He remembered the harmonicas of Ed Grey
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

> > > > > > > > > > > > >> > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/opera-positions.html

> > > > > > >> What has thinking I'm a better poet than T.S. Eliot

Delusional state noted ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> > > > > >
> > > > > >> Just pointing out two of your most obvious flaws, Pendragon.
>
> > Pen seems to be in a tizzy of confusion tonight.... ha ha.
> Nothing really new for Pendragon.

Sadly pathetic but oh so true...