Re: On Seventh Avenue by Lisa Scarboro

[email protected] posted:

> On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:52:18 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:32:52 PM UTC-5, DoubleV wrote:
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> > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:32:18 -0800, Will Dockery wrote:
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> > > > On Seventh Avenue
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> > > >>   Here we are again...
> > > >>   apart.
> > > >>   I don't know where you are.
> > > >>   I can only wonder
> > > >>   and the waiting is endless
> > > >>   here on Seventh Avenue
> > > >>   and every car sounds like yours
> > > >>   and the cigarettes burn
> > > >>   and the blue smoke drifts up and away
> > > >>   and out of sight like you are.
> > > >>   You've got Jack with you riding shotgun
> > > >>   and you're on the road again just like old times
> > > >>   and I'm sitting here with pen and paper
> > > >>   writing this just to have something to do
> > > >>   just like old times on Seventh Avenue..
> > > >>   Who did you keep warm last night?
> > > >>   It wasn't me is all I know.
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> > > >>   I heard they're predicting rain today,
> > > >>   but I think rain came yesterday,
> > > >>   red and barefooted under a hot Georgia sun.
> > > >>   Wouldn't take very long to reach Alabama
> > > >>   unless it moves north.
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> > > >>   Is it gloomy everywhere today,
> > > >>   or just on Seventh Avenue?
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> > > >>   I'd walk away from everything if I could,
> > > >>   but a million little cords of responsibility have
> > > >>   me tied down here
> > > >>   and so I light another cigarette
> > > >>   and try to ignore the fact that the clocks are
> > > >>   acting strangely.
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> > > >>   Is time standing still everywhere,
> > > >>   or just on Seventh Avenue?
> > > >>   And I have to forgive the ignorant cruelty of
> > > >>   people driving past my house
> > > >>   (because they don't know)
> > > >>   how I'm sitting here listening for
> > > >>   the sound of a motor stopping
> > > >>   and a car door shutting
> > > >>   and footsteps on the porch
> > > >>   and a key turning in the lock
> > > >>   and a voice saying "hey there",
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> > > >>   I'd give almost anything
> > > >>   for all that to be true,
> > > >>   but as yet it hasn't happened
> > > >>   here on Seventh Avenue.
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> > > >>   -Lisa Scarboro
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> > > > Hey, Vic... here's a good example of Lisa Scarborough's poetry.
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> > > thanks, Will.  So whats keeping her, why hasn't she shown up?
> > 
> > Considering Lisa hasn't been on the group since like 1998...
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> > But I'll shoot her a line through Facebook and let her know. It seems I recall you are on Facebook, Vic?
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> > Friend me and I'll connect you with Lisa, as well.
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> Lisa here....sorry, I just got the link to this site a little while ago. 

Good talking with you earlier, I'm sending you the new link to this poetry newsgroup, at JLA Forums.

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