Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
Newsgroups: alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.arts.poems
Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:14:29 +0000
Organization: novaBBS
Message-ID: <3e434ed15e6d4e5e5e8024b853ca651a@www.novabbs.com>
References: <d277590b-b7a4-4552-9c9b-8bd31d67c058n@googlegroups.com> <BaOcnTfe_K374QL6nZ2dnZfqn_gAAAAA@giganews.com> <ed1246c11b26c282c6238e80aacb04de@www.novabbs.com> <f53ea53efdc8152dc2b4c0fec4705cd8@www.novabbs.com> <2be4d3111792e7366cab3909e2835c30@www.novabbs.com> <60dfaaf54cca2f169f9a2e4825c79784@www.novabbs.com> <7f6758c7e9ca14adb08a11084d70daa3@www.novabbs.com> <7e4a0ff829c727d13a0fe123821fc1a9@www.novabbs.com> <9f058960ba28731d77e1f20380b0d876@www.novabbs.com> <c05524063282fafcc578f1aa315f389a@www.novabbs.com> <982fae577b34f9ab6bac9f56fad94c48@www.novabbs.com> <3d3fd72cd6a949d3814e8dafb2698c02@www.novabbs.com> <56af7827e13ea3bd3adac4eb13708616@www.novabbs.com> <XnsB28BA4A776CD1PantyheadPoorHouse@135.181.20.170>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Info: i2pn2.org;
	logging-data="852478"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org";
	posting-account="Vf9CM7g99yqfGvzEHTw0bhrjcIfvzYBBhUuRma0rLuQ";
User-Agent: Rocksolid Light
X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$8/ca30i3h3LWElkRRgBufu2RRmr8GQ9OIpwynclKaCWEDbi7KHGrW
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0
X-Rslight-Posting-User: acd0b3e3614eaa6f47211734e4cbca3bfd42bebc
Bytes: 5901
Lines: 120

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:11:10 +0000, Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:

> will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery) wrote in
> news:56af7827e13ea3bd3adac4eb13708616@www.novabbs.com:
>
>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:26:45 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>>
>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>> HarryLime wrote:
>>>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>>>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks again, George, and bumped, since Michael Pendragon is in
>>>>>>>> a tizzy trying to bury the post.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Did you share a real life "romantic interlude" with the little
>>>>>>> freckled girl or not?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, like the poem states, it was in a dream.
>>>>>
>>>>> It doesn't matter if it was a dream
>>>>
>>>> If course it matters.
>>>>
>>>> Dreams are different from reality, don't you agree?
>>>
>>> Your poem presents a scenario wherein it is considered not only
>>> acceptable, but a "romantic interlude
>>
>> In the context of the times, yes
>
> Can you lose an argument any more clumsily

You seem confused, Cujo.

😏