Sitting On the Dock of the Bay

Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay
was a very popular song in its day,
but when it played one day as I listened
I realized that the song was a song about nothing.
He's sitting in the morning sun
and he'll be sitting when the evening comes
watching the ships roll in,
then he'll watch them roll away again.
Additional verses for Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay
might just happen to play this way;
I'm sitting in a chair over here
then I sit in a chair over there
and then when I sit myself down
I proceed to turn my head around and around.
I may as well be sitting on a dock on the bay
wasting time and do nothing all day.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011


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Date: 1/23/2011 6:16:00 PM
Ha! You've written a controversial poem! I would say he's come a long long way to sit there 'at the end of the world' (unless he has a little boat to sail into the sunset!) seems to me from a cold cold place...poems as containers we can 'put things into', what a thought. A relief to read light work sometimes--I do enjoy and get a laugh with your poems!
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Date: 1/21/2011 11:14:00 AM
I have enjoyed reading your words today billy.
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Date: 1/20/2011 4:41:00 PM
Whenever they played that Otis Redding tune in the casino, there would always be at least one patron whistling at the end. Sometimes, I whistled myself. You describe everything well with some good rhyming. Overall, this is a good job.
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Date: 1/20/2011 3:59:00 PM
hahaha, this is my husand when he used to have a boat and I had to spend the whole dull day down there on the dock with him. I'd bring magazines and pen to write poetry and he would just look and look and look and look..WHAT a dope!
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Date: 1/20/2011 2:58:00 PM
chucklin' out loud! SBTK! jimbo
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