Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:07:38 +0000, Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:

will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery) wrote in
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On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 3:05:09 +0000, Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:
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will.dockery@gmail.com (Will Dockery) wrote in
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On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:11:10 +0000, Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:
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will.dockery@gmail.com (Will Dockery) wrote in
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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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Of course it matters. There's a difference between dreams and reality.

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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

Again, in the context of the times and characters, yes.

In the context of the times, yes

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Can you

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You seem confused, Cujo.
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It's not me

<Cujo's delusional and obsessive fantasy snipped>

I didn't expect you to admit it, Cujo.

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Snippery

Like I said.

How does this change

Sorry, that's all in your imagination, Cujo.
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