Re: Wooden Footbridge / Will Dockery

Will Dockery wrote:
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"Brainiac 5"  wrote in message

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Will Dockery wrote:

General Zod wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

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Wooden Footbridge
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Almost half way
to Avalon Road
was a footbridge.
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Out of the forest
the end of the road.
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Now I hate
what has become of it.
Look, and smell
what gravity and time
have done.
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It was not a lot
a Wooden footbridge
Our children
once used it
to avoid the traffic.
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Let me contiue
down Avalon Road.
There in the marketplace
is the Edgewood Inn.
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Mister Patel
in his office with a smile.
Roofers and good time girls
roustabout for a while.
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Cross yourself
according to
Preacher Gulsbi's
prayers.
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McMurray's barber shop
comic strips and tobacco
on my way home
from dance school
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Especially for children
Go and interact
Edgewood School
Next to the transport.
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December 8, 1974
Boy called Bob
Pencil hanging
He died at this level.
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I was there there last week.
Look at that
wooden bridge
It was selected.
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Get rid of the weed
And the gap between the water.
Keep it in the dark.
never
Now let's move on.
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-Will Dockery

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Avalon???
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Old English influences.....??

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This poem should go into the Shadowville Mythos blog, soon.

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https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2022/06/wooden-footbridge.html
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Good read of times long passed...