Re: "Gina" / Will Dockery

Will Dockery wrote:

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Gina

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I thought of you
about nine years ago
or more
for a minute or two.

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Is it because
after 15 years
(and now what is it, 19?)
the ghosts of the past
still exist.

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When I'm sitting here thinking
when I'm all alone.

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I was living
in a speed nightmare
drinking wine
so I could go to sleep.
Walking around
by the pine trees.

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Looking around
in God's little world.
These things
took some time
like the erosion of a stone.

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There was the last day
of German class
and walking.
And what you told me
about your father
and what he had done in the war.

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You said you would forgive me
for what I said
but you never did.

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You rubbed my chest
with menthol.
That seemed
to really help.
That
and your tuna fish kiss.

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You wore that
fundamentalist dress
it was thick green wool
and sometimes brown.

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You looked like
an imitation Aryan gypsy
wearing your
little brown fern style belt
and copper braces.

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I still can remember
all of your faces.

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-Will Dockery

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From the Shadowville mythos poetry blog:
https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2022/09/gina.html

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