Re: Red Lipped Stranger by Will Dockery & The Shadowville All-Stars

"the messenjah" wrote:
> Will Dockery 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.

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Chuck L.

May he rest in peace.

🙏 


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