Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 16:50:26 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 15:55:22 +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 because it's a form of
sexual assault, and a violation of a woman's body.
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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

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

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I call

Mainly, you continue to lie and misrepresent, Harry.

Answer my question

Okay, see below for my answer.

If you ran into some guy you'd barely known in high school, and after
exchanging a few words, he planted a kiss on you and stuck his finger up
your butthole, would you consider that to have been "making out"?
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Since that would be a completely different situation from the one in my
poem there would have been a completely different outcome.