Re: On Seventh Avenue by Lisa Scarboro
[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
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> Lisa Scarborough wrote: > Will Dockery wrote: > >> Lisa Scarborough wrote: >> >> On Seventh Avenue >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> Is it gloomy everywhere today, >> or just on Seventh Avenue? >> >> 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. >> >> 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", >> I'd give almost anything >> for all that to be true, >> but as yet it hasn't happened >> here on Seventh Avenue. >> >> -Lisa Scarboro >> >> Hey, Vic... here's a good example of Lisa Scarborough's poetry. >> >> thanks, Will. So whats keeping her, why hasn't she shown up? >> >> Considering Lisa hasn't been on the group since like 1998... >> >> But I'll shoot her a line through Facebook and let her know. It seems I recall you are on Facebook, Vic? >> >> Friend me and I'll connect you with Lisa, as well. >> >> Lisa here....sorry, I just got the link to this site a little while ago. >> >> The Return of the Dark Queen! >> > > > ta daaaaa! Hello there Lisa, hope you'll return to the poetry newsgroups again soon. 😏 This response appears in the discussion at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=657882224#657882224 -- Via JLA Forums web gateway for alt.arts.poetry.comments: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655