Re: On Seventh Avenue by Lisa Scarboro

[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
Newsgroups alt.arts.poetry.comments
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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.

😏 


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