Re: On Seventh Avenue by Lisa Scarboro
[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
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> DoubleV wrote: > Will Dockery 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? And, for that matter, where did *you* go? 😏 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