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From: mpsilvertone@yahoo.com (HarryLime)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 14:06:05 +0000
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 18:12:37 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 14:27:25 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 14:08:38 +0000, Will-Dockery wrote:
>>
>>>>> I Met A Girl
>>>>>
>>>>> I met a girl
>>
>> By Will Dockery
>>
>>>>> She was a little freckled girl
>>>>> from out of
>>>>> my high school past.
>>>>> At this point I kissed her
>>>>> and put my finger to her hole.
>>
>> Edited for effect
>
> Vandalized for misrepresentation is more like it.
>
> 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
>
> ***
>
> 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.
>
> All apologies to those offended.

I suppose that's a start.

Of course, an apologize is supposed to include owning up to one's
mistake -- not attempting to justify it as beatnik inspired swagger.

You need to recognize that groping a woman you've just met is wrong. 
Regardless of whether she's a punk rocker, or that you were acting under
the influence of beatnik poets.  Groping is wrong because it's a form of
sexual assault, and a violation of a woman's body.

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