Re: "When the Mill Shut Down" / Will Dockery

[email protected] (George J. Dance) posted:
> Will Dockery wrote:
> > The True Melissa <thetruemelissa> posted:
> >> Verily, in article <LjOdnRUuepIHknf0nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d>, did
> >> [email protected] deliver unto us this message:
> >> 
> >> "When the Mill Shut Down" in the current form goes back to at least July 30 2006, where Stuart Leichter gave it a favorable review:
> >> 
> >> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/IaDWIoMXOkU/m/QcPcBOeQF-0J
> >> 
> >> ***
> >> 
> >> On Sunday, July 30, 2006 at 5:16:55 PM UTC-4, Stuart Leichter wrote:
> >> 
> >> in article [email protected], Will Dockery at
> >> [email protected] wrote on 7/30/06 12:59 PM:
> >> 
> >> When.
> >> 
> >> When the mill shut down,
> >> we hit the pavement with a thud,
> >> then we all got up and kept walking.
> >> Some to the work house,
> >> some to the poor house,
> >> some to the whorehouse,
> >> and the grave.
> >> 
> >> -Will Dockery
> >> 
> >> This one's good, Will.
> >> The title you might make When the mill shut down (without the comma, and
> >> then continue with the 2nd and following lines).
> >> I think you should post it with a C&C request in the subject line.
> >> Stuart
> >> (crit-cred: I know literal from figurative, I know opinions from sentiments,
> >> and I never threatened you)
> >> 
> >> ***
> >> 
> >> When the Mill Shut Down
> >> 
> >> When the mill shut down,
> >> we hit the pavement with a thud,
> >> then we all got up and kept walking.
> >> Some to the work house,
> >> some to the poor house,
> >> some to the whorehouse,
> >> and the grave.
> >> 
> >> -Will Dockery
> >> 
> >> Nice. It sums up the dull, plodding feeling of getting on with our lives
> >> after something huge has ended with a wet splat.
> >
> > Thanks again, and hope you'll stuck with us for more poetry, Melissa.
> 
> Did Melissa delete her post? If so: Wow! 

Melissa seems to be evading answering this question.

In other words:

*Crickets*

😏

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