Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery

On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 16:36:18 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 15:43:26 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 21:03:34 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:

General-Zod wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

Faraway Star wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

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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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The official version of this poem.

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Yes, that matters.

On y second read of this today, it captures that touch of Bukowski but

is fully a Doc story... superb...
Welcome back, Zod.
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I thank... good to be back...!

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Great new art, by the way:

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https://imgur.com/gallery/hth2PQb

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https://imgur.com/gallery/BJgjm9m

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I thank

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Good morning again old pal.

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Has reopening one of your old duplicate threads with the same topic
header made all of the other groups with the same header go away,

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I don't control how these threads appear, Pendragon
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Both JLA Forums and Nova BBS have some weird things happening that
breaks these threads like this, not me.
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Perhaps Retro Guy or the JLA administrator can fix the problem, perhaps
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The only problem, Donkey, is that you post half a dozen threads with the
same subject.
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Your poem is still extremely misogynistic, demeaning and degrading to
women,

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I don't think so at all, as I've pointed out earlier, the poem is in the
Erotic poetry genre, and the characters are influenced by Beatnik and
1980s new wave and punk rock zeitgeist of those eras.
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The poetry is a snapshot from 1982, very different times which you
apparently missed, Pendragon.

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Admittedly, I've never groped a young woman 2 minutes after meeting her.
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objectifying, insensitive to the nth degree, and utterly beneath
contempt.

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Not at all, it's a very accurate depiction of a rock and roll romance
circa early 1980s
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I know because I was there, I lived it.

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So you sexually assaulted a woman

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No, it was all consensual, read the poem.

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You do not say that it is consensual in the poem

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It was very clear it was consensual in the poem.
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For example, the girl didn't slap me or yell at me or anything.
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😏
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You leave it up to the reader to decide, based on the events which
you've depicted in your poem's narrative.
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you barely knew.

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No, we know each other years ago, back in high school.
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Good to know.

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Absolutely not.

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If it is "Absolutely not" good to know this information, then why did
you bring it up in the first place?

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It was a part of the poem.

Okay.  Granted.  Nothing regarding that piece of offensive twaddle could
ever be considered "good to know."
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