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

No, again, the poem is a retelling of a dream I had in May 1982 about
someone I knew many years before.
None of the events depicted in the poem actually happened.
HTH and HAND.