Will Dockery wrote:

> Zod wrote:

>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>
>>> Key Characters
>>>
>>> He tried to see himself
>>> through the mediocrity.
>>> Fullest memories
>>> of moments of intuition.
>>>
>>> Unhelpful
>>> perhaps
>>> we both see.
>>>
>>> The incurable superintendent
>>> he has prominence.
>>> He walks around
>>> and you probably fuck him.
>>>
>>> Empty out your ashtrays
>>> before he licks them.
>>>
>>> You have designer jeans
>>> and brand new teeth.
>>> I noticed that your eyes are still
>>> so very full and blue.
>>>
>>> Watching the money
>>> collect on your bed.
>>> There's a movie on the television
>>> about Kansas City Jazz
>>> in Technicolor
>>> although the TV is black and white.
>>>
>>> In the film
>>> there is a woman on a balcony.
>>> She has a pretty nose
>>> but her eyes are not real
>>> and neither is her mouth
>>> she talks really funny
>>> like imitation South.
>>>
>>> I couldn't care less about her,
>>> or you,
>>> or anyone else who lies
>>> about giving a damn.
>>>
>>> I'm there
>>> going in
>>> incredibly high.
>>> You gave me head
>>> guaranteed for wandering.
>>>
>>> Standing alone
>>> someone is there
>>> a military man.
>>>
>>> Her husband of the stairs
>>> lying
>>> mending
>>> stared apart from
>>> the cracks in the sand.
>>>
>>> Assure your heart
>>> way downstairs
>>> with its audience.
>>>
>>> I thoughtlessly locked the door
>>> then noticed
>>> rather sadly
>>> that I was out of keys.
>>>
>>> On the hill
>>> evening is falling
>>> and I'm crying.
>>>
>>> Beyond Piedmont Park
>>> I can see the tips
>>> of multicolored lighted buildings
>>> over there.
>>>
>>> Romance in the city
>>> it seems so nice
>>> as I sit in my room
>>> in the boarding house
>>> watching a movie about Kansas City.
>>>
>>> You're with Mike Sherry
>>> a nice Jewish kid
>>> just out of college.
>>>
>>> While I've been shouted down
>>> so worthless to you
>>> that I've been
>>> wished out of existence
>>> forever.
>>>
>>> Living in a boarding house
>>> right out of some film noir
>>> pulling the night shift
>>> without a telephone.
>>>
>>> Suitcases standing in a sandy corner
>>> a non-entity
>>> exiled
>>> within a city
>>> filled with carbon monoxide, murder and fear.
>>>
>>> For dinner
>>> there's candy bars and beer.
>>>
>>> Isolation
>>> is an irritation
>>> to my eyes.
>>>
>>> Fuck you forever
>>> for causing me these tears.
>>>
>>> As the soundtrack blares
>>> with drum machines
>>> and synthesized elements.
>>>
>>> -Will Dockery (April 1981)
>>>
>>> ----
>>> From the Shadowville Mythos poetry blog:
>>> https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2021/03/key-characters.html

>> Important work from the early years of Dockery... bravo...

> A lot of years getting the story told.

> :)

Right on, tell it...!!