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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 21:19:08 +0000
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 21:14:42 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 18:12:37 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
> That's a very strange dream sequence, Will.
>
>> ***
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 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.
>
>> 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.
>>
>> HTH and HAND.
>
> 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.

Harry Lime aka Michael Pendragon is apparently in a tizzy over it

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