Re: The Return of Michael Monkey

Will Dockery wrote:

George J Dance wrote:

Michael Monkey Peabrain aka "HarryLime" wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

MummyChunk wrote:

>

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

>

Just curious.

>

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

Pendragon.

>

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

>

Oh, so HarryLiar wants proof? Let's look at his next paragraph:

>

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.
>
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

>

Never mind the Harry Lime bullocks, here's the original unedited version
so the readers can decide for
themselves:
>
***
>

I Met A Girl
>
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.
>
And she looked up at me
and talked real spacey.
I've forgotten her name
though she told it to me twice.
>
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.
>
And she looked up at me
and talked real spacey.
I have forgotten her name
though she told it to me twice.
>
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.
>
All I want to do
is get in contact.
>
-Will Dockery / May 8 1982

>
***
>
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.
>
Both styles employed a sort of crude swagger in the tone and content
which I also used in many of my poems.
>
Again, all apologies to those offended.
>
HTH and HAND, again.
>
😏

>
And again, the poem is your attempt to recast what can only be seen as
an act of  sexual assault (at least insofar as it's depicted in your
poem) as a "romantic interlude" from you past.

>
No, that's your attempt to misrepresent the meaning of my poem.
>
HTH and HAND.

>

>
You had a dream

>
That's correct.
>
>

“Yes, the poem itself is based on a dream I had 43 years ago

;
Autocorrect typo fixed.

>
Riiiight.