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

Will Dockery wrote in article <[email protected]>:
> 
> [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*

What question? Do you mean the "question" of whether I deleted 
something?

As I already explained, I didn't because of course I didn't. It's 
not even possible to delete something from Usenet. Once it's 
sent, it's sent. As for the web gateways, we use, I have deleted 
nothing from them and have no Earthly reason to do so because I 
don't use them. 

It was a ridiculous idea which I already pointed out was 
ridiculous. 
 
> ?

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But I'm not so easily sold.
For supposing they should,
It would do them no good --
They'd lose it at once to the bold.