Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 16:41:38 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 16:20:57 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
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Harry Lime continues to lie and misrepresent about my poem, so 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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Again, 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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Once again, all apologies to those offended.
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And so it goes.

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And again, the poem is your attempt to recast

Not really.
Read the George Dance critique, since he understands the poem so much
better than you apparently do, Harry:
On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 21:55:28 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

Michael Monkey Peabrain aka "HarryLime" wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

Michael Monkey Peabrain aka "HarryLime" wrote:

On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 17:42:27 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:

"HarryLime" wrote:
Will Dockery wrote:

Mummy chunk wrote:

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Again, why do you lie and misrepresent so much, monkey boy Michael

Pendragon?
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Just curious.

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The problem with you is that you lie and misrepresent so much, Michael
Pendragon.

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That simply isn't true

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Of course I don't expect you to admit it, Pendragon.

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You know the rules,: PPSFU (Post Proof or Shut the Fuck Up).
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Any so-called "misrepresentation" you can find was based on one of
*your* posts.

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Oh, so HarryLiar wants proof? Let's look at his next paragraph:
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I only know you from what you post here.  If you write a poem
based on a "romantic interlude" where you grope a woman you barely knew,

I did know her and I didn't grope her. We kissed and made out a bit. All
completely consensual.

Harry Liar reposted an "edited" poem Will had written over 40 years ago
about a dream he'd had. You reposted part of the poem, snipping the line
about it being a dream, to falsely accuse him of sexual assault.
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Here's the thread, so readers can see for themselves:

https://www.novabbs.com/arts/article-flat.php?id=15788&group=rec.arts.poems#15788
Thanks again for reading and commenting, George.