Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery

will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery) wrote in
news:56af7827e13ea3bd3adac4eb13708616@www.novabbs.com:
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On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:26:45 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
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Will Dockery wrote:

HarryLime wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

George J. Dance 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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That's a very strange dream sequence, Will.
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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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It does sound a bit like Bukowski. It actually reminded me
most of a Bukowski wannabe who used to post here, who shall
go nameless.
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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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HTH and HAND.

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I can't see why anyone in their right mind would be offended
by a dream you had more than 40 years ago; but given some of
the people nn the group these days, it's probably best to
cover oneself.

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Harry Lime aka Michael Pendragon is apparently in a tizzy over
it
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Yes. I noticed him writing about it another thread, writing
about this poem, which is what brought me here to check it out
in the first place. He was of course misrepresenting it as a
real incident, rather than a dream you'd written a poem about,
hoping no one would come here to check it.

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Thanks again, George, and bumped, since Michael Pendragon is in
a tizzy trying to bury the post.

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Did you share a real life "romantic interlude" with the little
freckled girl or not?
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No, like the poem states, it was in a dream.

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It doesn't matter if it was a dream

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If course it matters.
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Dreams are different from reality, don't you agree?

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Your poem presents a scenario wherein it is considered not only
acceptable, but a "romantic interlude

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In the context of the times, yes

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Can you lose an argument any more clumsily