Re: Red Lipped Stranger by Will Dockery & The Shadowville All-Stars
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> the messenjah wrote: > Will Dockery <will> wrote: > >> Red Lipped Stranger by Will Dockery & The Shadowville All-Stars / >> Written by Will Dockery, Brian Mallard & Henry Conley / Vocals - Will >> Dockery / Vocals - Gini Woolfolk / Guitar - Brian Mallard / Art - Gary >> Frankfurth / Produced by Robbie Wright © 2009 >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBhcN1WK144 >> >> Red Lipped Stranger >> >> Her creep crawls >> the narrow stairway >> of the Candlelight Motel >> to watch for her >> from a window. >> >> Rethinking >> his infatuation >> but clinging >> to his vision of her >> as the red lipped stranger. >> >> Downstairs >> the desk clerk's cat >> slithers through >> the service entrance. >> >> The vampirate >> on a motorbike >> passes below >> to the westbound bridge >> werewolf on her back. >> >> Jennifer at riverbend >> watches gunboats >> smacks her foot >> on the bright red clay. >> >> Jennifer gives good lyric >> she wrote this poem >> she's no bum. >> >> But she's not there >> on the other side >> of the greenish wall. >> >> Through a three-inch-wall >> he hears >> bedsprings rattle >> rustle of dry-hump, >> some guy's mumbles. >> >> Hears the fat blonde waitress >> whip it in bondage >> the sounds >> lull him to sleep. >> >> The hand of Uncle Sugar >> still taking notes >> as a new standard bearer >> hands out trophies >> to the winners. >> >> His trillion dollar gash >> flakes from the bone >> as gravity tears >> a pound of dust. >> >> Clings to a picture book >> the missing part of himself >> as if perpetually >> anchored >> to his invisible erection. >> >> At Lucky Seven Lounge >> she tries >> not to reveal herself >> but she stubbornly clutches >> her empty shoes. >> >> Something >> seems missing >> in the broad daylight >> when the details >> are displayed. >> >> All that remains are >> her flat black hat >> her oversized lantern >> her broken laptop. >> >> No poor boy on the street >> can speak of her >> or the island on the river. >> Or about her return... >> her resurrection. >> >> -Will Dockery >> > > > Finally. Someone posts some good work. Keep rockin' Will. > > http://skywriter.diaryland.com/090930_75.html *** From the archives, a critique from Chuck L. Maybe rest in peace. 🙏 This response appears in the discussion at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=658776696#658776696 -- Via JLA Forums web gateway for alt.arts.poetry.comments: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655