Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 15:50:04 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 15:41:10 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:

On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 14:27:25 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 14:08:38 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:

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I Met A Girl
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I met a girl

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By Will Dockery
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She was a little freckled girl
from out of
my high school past.
At this point I kissed her
and put my finger to her hole.

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Edited for effect

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Vandalized for misrepresentation is more like it.
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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 because it's a form of
sexual assault, and a violation of a woman's body.
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--

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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

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