Re: Looked All Over / Will Dockery (1983)

Will Dockery wrote:

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Looked All Over
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Walked through the rain
to the telephone
it was cold outside
winter
you know
so I knew
it would be this way.
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I was looking out
that busted up window
and knew
that the phone call
was needed
but it was cold outside
and raining.
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Got blown
by that misty rain
driven off days
to find her
but she was
as missing as possible.
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Tried every place
I could think of
which in hindsight
was not that many.
I forget sometimes
just how big a city can be.
She was missing
Possibly insane.
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I even talked with her dad
who said nothing.
I looked all over
couldn't see
the forest for the trees.
I looked all over
a frozen wall of emotions
between then and me.
I looked all over
but it was actually over
before I even began.
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Heated up a can of soup
in the apartment.
Stirred in some
bizarre leftovers.
There was
a knock on my door.
It was Berg
who was cackling and crazed
laughing about somebody
who had given him a ride.
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I had to go to the telephone
into the rain
to try and find her.
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I talked to the police
who could only speak of death.
I looked all over
looked up to the sky
as the rain came down.
I looked all over
watched the searchlights
at the used car lot.
I looked all over
would have been nice,
to know
what her family knew.
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-Will Dockery 1983

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