Will Dockery wrote:

> General-Zod wrote:

>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>
>>> Sunshine Seventy-Seven

>>> I went and sold some blood
>>> then bought
>>> a big bottle of wine.

>>> Copped some weed
>>> so we could party
>>> and celebrate my new job.

>>> Blind bat getting rowdy
>>> tried to attack Jimmy Green.

>>> He picked up a stick
>>> off the darkened street
>>> smacked the bat down.

>>> While I was over at her house
>>> I helped Galatea
>>> paint her bathroom green.

>>> Powder snow whisked up my nose
>>> to my brain
>>> pizzeria summit meeting.

>>> Then riding all night
>>> delivering pizza.

>>> Feeling the hot dabs
>>> of Summer swelter
>>> and going to bed alone.

>>> I looked into her eyes
>>> in the morning light
>>> as we walked
>>> on the dew covered grass.

>>> The clouds churned white
>>> it seemed like
>>> a hundred years ago.

>>> I had the stoned awareness
>>> there were illustrations
>>> in my thoughts
>>> obviously created by her stare

>>> Her kisses
>>> could have lasted forever
>>> her eyes
>>> were like two blue stones
>>> my thoughts flew like birds.

>>> On the blood red clay of the bank
>>> we sat
>>> she was sitting behind me
>>> wrapped around me.

>>> I could feel the air
>>> so hot and dry.

>>> The sun swam over the lake
>>> in crimson floods
>>> the clouds were shifting
>>> in orange flashes.

>>> Like golden chains
>>> the clouds cut across the blue sky
>>> my thoughts of her
>>> seemed to freeze my blood.

>>> The day mellowed finally
>>> I wondered when or if
>>> she was ever coming back
>>> it was so silent.

>>> I found that she was gone
>>> told her goodbye on the telephone
>>> as the sun went down
>>> blazing red.

>>> Blue stars sparkled
>>> on the black sky above
>>> as I sat on the corner
>>> smoking my weed.

>>> Wondering how much longer
>>> I would have to wait
>>> waiting for the sky to split.

>>> The night lumbered on
>>> club-footed
>>> I wished she would
>>> come to my window
>>> and lay beside me again.

>>> Her eyes
>>> like blue stones
>>> as my thoughts
>>> flew like birds.

>>> -Will Dockery (July 1977)

>>> -----------------------------------
>>> From the Shadowville Mythos poetry blog:
>>> https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2021/12/sunshine-seventy-seven.html

>> Another golden age favorite....

> Thanks for reading and commenting.

> 🙂

Having another read of one not seen for a while..!