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Re: Shambles / Will Dockery

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by: Faraway Star - Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:49 UTC

On Sunday, January 19, 2024 at 5:46:15 PM UTC-4, 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

Very vivid visual poetry, another 👍 read...

You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra

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