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Red Lipped Stranger / Will Dockery  Will Dockery 08:47:41 |
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Red Lipped Stranger
Her creep crawls
the narrow stairway
of the Candlelight Motel
to watch for her
from a window.
Rethinking
his infatuation
but clinging
to his vision of her
as the red lipped stranger.
Downstairs
the desk clerk's cat
slithers through
the service entrance.
The vampirate
on a motorbike
passes below
to the westbound bridge
werewolf on her back.
Jennifer at riverbend
watches gunboats
smacks her foot
on the bright red clay.
Jennifer gives good lyric
she wrote this poem
she's no bum.
But she's not there
on the other side
of the greenish wall.
Through a three-inch-wall
he hears
bedsprings rattle
rustle of dry-hump,
some guy's mumbles.
Hears the fat blonde waitress
whip it in bondage
the sounds
lull him to sleep.
The hand of Uncle Sugar
still taking notes
as a new standard bearer
hands out trophies
to the winners.
His trillion dollar gash
flakes from the bone
as gravity tears
a pound of dust.
Clings to a picture book
the missing part of himself
as if perpetually
anchored
to his invisible erection.
At Lucky Seven Lounge
she tries
not to reveal herself
but she stubbornly clutches
her empty shoes.
Something
seems missing
in the broad daylight
when the details
are displayed.
All that remains are
her flat black hat
her oversized lantern
her broken laptop.
No poor boy on the street
can speak of her
or the island on the river.
Or about her return...
her resurrection.
-Will Dockery
Категории: Alabama, Shadowville |
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| Will Dockery Biography Will Dockery 08:27:35 |
| "I know that my true friend will appear after my death, and my sweetheart died before I was born." -Tanaka Katsumi (via Harlan Ellison)
Early Years
The son of Kelly H. Dockery, a World War II and Korean War veteran, later a Howard bus and taxicab driver, and Mildred Whitley, William Abraham Dockery was born in LaGrange, Georgia on May 7, 1958, where he would visit frequently during childhood, being the home of his maternal grandparents. He lived in Columbus, Georgia, forty miles south of LaGrange, and both areas meld into the alternate universe of Shadowville in his various works of art.
He started playing music in 1961, when he got his first guitar. This early phase in music was cut short, though, when he smashed the guitar over his father's head, who was napping. He remembers he was emulating a scene he'd seen on an episode of the television series Bonanza or another of the westerns popular in that era. Hank Williams was an early hero, especially after watching Your Cheatin' Heart, the 1964 film of Hank Williams' life story with George Hamilton playing Williams.
He attended Waverly Terrace Elementary school, where he won first prize in kindergarden in a school-wide competition for a crayon drawing of a witch, obviously influenced by his early exposure to comic books and film noir, which everything on television resembled in the pre-color era of the 1960s.
The next year, in May of 1965, his family moved to the east side of Columbus, where he attended Edgewood Elementary school. There, he wrote his first poetry, influenced by reading Edgar Allen Poe and combining that with ideas influenced by popular music such as The Beatles. Also during this time he created hundreds of hand made, unpublished minicomics, which included over 500 issues of the adventure serial Uncle Jim, Uncle Jim Comics and Stories had a spinoff comic strip called Tonight Show Starring Uncle Jim, which filled many episodes in which guest hosts filled in for Uncle Jim in a parody of Johnny Carson's television series of the time. In May of 1970 Dockery made his return to music, performing a cover of the Tiny Tim song Tiptoe Through the Tulips.
Discography
Bag of Groceries (1982) material written and recorded with Jim Pontius and P.D. Wilson.
Shadowville All-Stars[1](2006-07) material written with Dennis Beck and Brian Mallard, including God's Toybox, Dream Tears and others.
Dockery-Conley [2] (1998-2008) material written with Henry F. Conley, including Ozone Stigmata, Fadeaway Encounter and others.
Shadowville Speedway ep A five song sampler compact disc released June 11 2008, 1.) Shadowville Speedway 2.) Twilight Girl 3.) Fadeaway Encounter 4.) Ragpicker Joe 5.) Surgeon General. All songs written by Will Dockery and Henry Conley.
Minicomics
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Demon House Theatre minicomic by Will DockeryUncle Jim's Comics and Stories (1969-1970) unpublished minicomic.
Various unpublished comic strips including Splut, Virtue Peak, Vulture's Beak, The Assemblers and Tonight Show Starring Uncle Jim (1967-1970)
Terror Time (1970-1974) unpublished horror anthology minicomic.
Le Glass Dildo (1978) mixture of minicomic and poetry.
The Torchbearers (1979-1980)
Shaman Newspaper (1984-1996) minicomic anthology
Demon House Theatre (1985-1988)
River Mutants (1985-1988)
Poetry Chapbooks
Red Zeros -Summer 1983
Topaz Cube -Summer 1984
Blood Skeleton -Summer 1984
Green Ringlets -1989
felt -1990 alt.zines review from January 7 1996
felt, 50c postpaid. Minicomic, eight pages. William Dockery, P.O. Box xxxx, Phenix City, Alabama 36868. On the back cover of this tome is written the words, "Second Printing." I was going to joke that with Dockery, this means my copy is not only the second printing but the second copy. However, this damn thing is actually very well written. Maybe he did actually print more than one copy in the first printing, and sold out! felt begins poorly, but picks up at the top of page four. Then things really get going at the bottom of page four, and the lines roll on through thunderous poetic crescendoes right to the end. There are amazing images here; Tatumville park, the memory of Tracy, the father who's "a grey cat," even a lake of disappearing paths. I highly recommend this chapbook on two counts, as a stunning book of poems and as a sample of the best the comics small press has to offer. -Andrew Roller, January 7 1996 in alt.zines
To The Magic Store -1993
April Bullets -1995
Secret Madrigals[3] -1997
Hard Return -1998
Opera Positions -1998
Sea Weed Fox -1999
White Irony -2000
Video appearances
Dockery was a part of documentary film-maker Truman Bentley, Jr.'s multi-part video cassette observation of the poets, artists and oddballs of Columbus, Georgia from the years 1996-2000. These have not been transferred to DVD and are at present out-of-print. Various peformances of Will Dockery are available on YouTube, including
Ozone Stigmata, written with Henry Conley.
Truck Stop Woman, written with Henry Conley.
Last Dream Today, written with Brian Mallard.
The Ride/Combat Zone, written with Dennis Beck.
Known Associates
- Jim Pontius
- George Sulzbach
- Tito Wals
- pd wilson
- Gene Woolfolk, Jr.
- Henry F. Conley
- Wes Sprunger
- George Buck
- Brian Fowler
- Dan Barfield
[edit] Hangouts
- Majestic Diner (Atlanta, Georgia)
- Ken's Tavern (Atlanta, Georgia)
- Dinglewood Pharmacy (Columbus, Georgia)
- The Alley behind Rhino's on Broad (Columbus, Georgia)
- SoHo Bar and Grill (Columbus, Georgia)
Later Years
Will Dockery currently resides in western central Georgia, pursuing his lifelong passions for art, music, poetry and performance art, recently appearing with Henry Conley and Gene Woolfolk at Pat's Place in Americus, Georgia June 14, 2008.
A new collection of songs written with Henry F. Conley, Shadowville Speedway Blues was released on compact disc on April 18, 2009.
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| Favorite Quotations Will Dockery 08:24:37 |
| "Passion--REALISM--realism was the key. The records were letters. Real letters from me to certain other people [...] I'd harbored hope that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock, I was, perhaps, wrong." -Lou Reed
"I know that my true friend will appear after my death, and my sweetheart died before I was born." -Tanaka Katsumi (via Harlan Ellison)
"That song, endlesly reincarnated- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it..." -Nick Tosches
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"...What do I get? A one way ticket to Palookaville." -Budd Schulberg
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Pablo Picasso (via Erzsebet Lieber)
"...If left alone, country music is a rather prestigious product and will stand on its own. You don't have to gussy it up, you don't have to corn it down, just let it be what it will be." -Jimmy Dean
"Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind." -John Lennon
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Категории: Shadowville |
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вторник, 1 декабря 2009 г.
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| "Dream Tears" / Will Dockery & The ... Will Dockery 11:03:56 |
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"Dream Tears" / Will Dockery & The Shadowville All-Stars
Written by Will Dockery & Brian Mallard / Guitar - Brian Mallard / Harmonica - Gary Frankfurth / Flute - John Joiner / Vocal - Will Dockery.
Video appearances by: Randy Dameron, Darlene Dameron, Eileen D'esterno, Doris Cox, Steve Scott, Gene Woolfolk Jr., Jim Patrick & Will Dockery.
Dream Tears
When the mill shut down
we hit the pavement with a thud
then we got up and kept walking.
Some to the workhouse
some to the poorhouse
some to the whorehouse
and the grave.
This battered old shell
looks like a death mask.
Step into this dream
only real to the sleeper.
Like in a dream
where you wake up laughing.
Games people play
all a cool illusion.
Dragging pulling me back
across my tattered brow.
Dream---
unholy afternoon of dreams.
Lovers are gone
sometimes the door opens.
Mistaken for a human being
a hilarious dream.
I went to sleep in another town
dreamed I was living in another time
life's like that sometimes kinda.
Miss her everyday...
she won't go away.
Push the hair out of your eyes
wipe back your tears.
Let the wind blow through
this unholy afternoon of dreams.
Lucky to hear the Pluto girls dance
the ground was glowing.
Would you like to see the dwarf planet split?
With one little karate chop.
Every day...
she won't go away.
Will Dockery (words)/Brian Mallard (music)
© 2009 - Will Dockery |
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вторник, 15 августа 2006 г.
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| "Ozone Stigmata" by Will Dockery Will Dockery 10:30:01 |
| "Ozone Stigmata" by Will Dockery
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Ozone Stigmata
On another level
about a thousand years ago-
I tried to hold her
and my heart won't let go.
In countess variations
just another two old souls.
And this net... net... net...
Don't let go the coat!
On a handbasket from Hell
I hold the handle.
Hand basket from Hell
both sides of the candle.
Read her note yesterday
the memory made me cry.
I drempt I got back to her
over time and over miles.
In this shaky kingdom
My first light that was true..
This light... light... light...
I raise a lantern for you!
Handbasket from Hell,
I tip the conductor.
Handbasket from Hell
I should sue the doctor.
I can hear you calling
from 10, 000 light years away.
And I'd be there with you
but I can't afford to stay.
I remember every hour
8 times a day...
This night... night... night...
The flames are cold and blue.
Handbasket from Hell
all across Christmas.
Handbasket from Hell
I wonder if they missed us...
-Dockery/Conley |
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