Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 16:47:50 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 16:08:18 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 14:14:16 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
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On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 23:08:34 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
On Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 9:40:55 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:

I Met A Girl
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I met a girl
she came from California.
It was in a dream
we knew each other instantly.
She was a little freckled girl
from out of
my high school past.
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And she looked up at me
and talked real spacey.
I've forgotten her name
though she told it to me twice.
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We talked
a really detached situation.
She said years ago
I was so shy
she thought I was gay.
At this point I kissed her
and put my finger to her hole.
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And she looked up at me
and talked real spacey.
I have forgotten her name
though she told it to me twice.
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I don't know why it was
that I would think of her.
I made a couple of puns
about her name that made me blush.
But her softness in tone
made me feel all right.
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All I want to do
is get in contact.
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-Will Dockery / May 8 1982

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Good to see....

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Thanks again, as I was telling Mummy Chunk, in 1982 when writing these
poems I
was highly influenced by 1950s Beat poets and 1980s punk rockers.
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So please excuse the foul language.

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And as I have been explaining to you, it isn't a matter of foul
language.
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Your poem depicts you groping a woman you'd been barely acquainted with
in high school, after having just bumped into her in public.  Apparently
the groping was in response to her having said that you were so shy and
quiet in high school that she'd thought that you were gay.
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That's not foul language
 That's

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Again, you're misrepresenting, Pendragon.
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We were just having some fun, kissing and making out, as the young
people used to call it.
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HTH and HAND.

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That's not how it's depicted in your poem,

Yes it is, Pendleton, you simply choose to misrepresent the content.

Perhaps you should consider rewriting it so that your "make out" session
didn't take place 30 seconds after

You're mistaken, Pendragon, it didn't happen that quickly.

you bumped into this woman you barely
knew (and whose name you couldn't remember),

It was over forty years ago, so yes, I confess that I've forgotten her
name.

or in response to her
saying that when you were in high school together, she thought that you
were gay.

Well, obviously she could see this wasn't true.

That way the only offensive thing would be your

I apologize to all who were offended by the graffic depiction of our
somewhat tame romantic encounter.

misogynistic/objectifying reference to "her hole."
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Yes, I did apologize to those who were offended by the foul language,
and have explained that the writing style was influenced by Best poetry
and punk rock.
And so it goes.