Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 20:39:26 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 20:29:40 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:

HarryLime wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

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Here's the original unedited version so the readers can decide for
themselves:
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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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This poem was written in 1982, during my time in the Atlanta Georgia New
Wave punk rock scene, while also influenced by the earlier Beatnik poets
I was reading at the time, such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and
Charles Bukowski among others.
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Both styles employed a sort of crude swagger in the tone and content
which I also used in many of my poems.
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All apologies to those offended.

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I suppose that's a start.
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Of course, an apologize is supposed to include owning up to one's
mistake -- not attempting to justify it as beatnik inspired swagger.
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You need to recognize that groping a woman you've just met is wrong.
Regardless of whether she's a punk rocker, or that you were acting under
the influence of beatnik poets.  Groping is wrong

I didn't grope her.

You're misrepresenting the scene again, Pendragon. We were just having
some fun, kissing and "making out" a little, as the young folks used to
call it.
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Nothing as serious as you want to make it out to be.
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HTH and HAND.

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Your poem makes it out to be

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No, that's just your misrepresentation of my poem, Pendragon.

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Mainly, you continue to lie and misrepresent, Harry.
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Answer my question

I did, and continue to.
See below:

Okay, see below for my answer.
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If you ran into some guy you'd barely known in high school

I know a lot of people from all walks of life, so such a meeting would
be welcome.
If of course give him a autographed copy of my poetry book.

Since that would be a completely different situation from the one in my
poem there would have been a completely different outcome.

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What's so different about it

You don't know the difference between straight and gay sex?
-- apart from the fact that you're the one

getting groped?

I didn't grope anyone.

--

The events in my poem were consensual.
Look that word up, Harry.
HTH and HAND.