Re: "Shambles" / Will Dockery

Will Dockery wrote:

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Shambles

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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.

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He seemed to think we were from the same area,
somewhere around Kentucky.
Maybe Carolina,
where his family worked on crab boats,
or maybe North Oates Avenue.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I wanted dark, I got dark.

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-Will Dockery (11-15-2016)

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From the Shadowville Mythos poetry blog:
https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2021/07/shambles.html

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Outstanding confessionial poetry...