Re: Irene Dämmerung / Will Dockery

Will Dockery wrote:

Brainiac Five wrote:

On Monday, September 2, 2024 at 6:16:52 AM UTC-5, George J. Dance wrote:

On Monday, September 2, 2024 at 5:17:50 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:

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Irene Dämmerung
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She gave me a rock
that she had hand painted
Irene Dämmerung
held my unrequited passion.
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Irene had a gentle heart
I knew this when we
were first acquainted.
She wore a rabbit fur coat
right in fashion.
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Her husband Twilight Joe
was always high rolling.
Joe had a cool hand like Sundance
on his bride's visage we all gazed.
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A man with the good smoke
that he was controlling.
Irene could catch men's eyes
even other girls were amazed.
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She'd paint little stones
designs she had created.
Traded her fur jacket to Tina
for a green felt one that was better.
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She took off with Joe Shannon
back down to Monticello.
The last thing we ever heard from her
was a sad letter.
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That Irene had walked in one day
to see Joe dead from pleasure.
Tied off arm and needle
Joe had overdosed on his treasure.
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-Will Dockery
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(From the poetry series "Clifford's Blues", based on the people

and events

of Atlanta 1980-1983)

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Ping G.J.D. - Added #'''Irene Dämmerung''' 2018 and shelved the poem

it replaces... for the next volume, perhaps.

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I'll add "Irene". I think it also belongs in the "Archetypes"

section..

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As for your cuts: Any poems we don't use can go into Zod's

compilation, if he cares for them. But I would like to go through the
poems you've cut and discuss them. I think they're all important to
include, for one reason or another.

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Maybe the best thing for me to do is to compile a list of those, and

make the case for each one. I'll do just that.
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How is the status at this point?

The cover art is finished:
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Cool early back story...!