Re: When The Mill Shut Down / Will Dockery (Facebook version)

> Will Dockeryâ„¢ wrote:
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> 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
> 
> Instagram via Facebook version 2019.



From the archives:

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

***

As Carson McCullers described Columbus Georgia:

"What I'm trying to tell you is plain and simple. The bastards who own these mills are millionaires. While the doffers and carders and all the people behind the machines who spin and weave the cloth can't hardly make enough to keep their guts quiet. See? So when you walk around the streets and think about it and see hungry, worn-out people and ricket-legged younguns, don't it make you mad? Don't it?"

-Jake from
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers


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