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Re: Give Me The Diamonds / Will Dockery

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by: Will-Dockery - Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:15 UTC

> Will Dockery wrote:
> Give Me The Diamonds
>
> Give me the damn diamonds
> Burn me to the core.
> To never kiss goodbye
> But bolt and chain your door.
>
> Give you pretty poems
> Written so small to squint
> Don't know where I can go
> Don't know where it all went.
>
> Time and smokestacks...
> Cliche cliche cliche.
>
> The steel can crush your bones
> The air is putrid and poisonous
> The roar is deafening
> The sickness is contagious.
>
> And the pain in this situation
> Can not be covered up in fiction.
>
> "This life gonna kill us, Doc."
>
> "Ain't never been no survivor."
>
> Green oblong boxes spin eternal
> The smoky spring/winter
> Outside is a funeral
> My mother's father died here
> But not in the concrete caverns.
>
> Tatumville Park
> Close by the village of Neg*oes
> A broken old clown
> In the train car
> My daddy threw rocks at.
>
> -Will Dockery 1989

Another poem from the archives, that id nearly forgotten about again.

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