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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 14:14:16 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 23:08:34 +0000, Will-Dockery wrote:
>
>>> Anonymous wrote:
>>> On Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 9:40:55 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Good to see....
>>
>>
>> Thanks again, as I was telling Mummy Chunk, in 1982 when writing these
>> poems I
>> was highly influenced by 1950s Beat poets and 1980s punk rockers.
>>
>> So please excuse the foul language.
>
> And as I have been explaining to you, it isn't a matter of foul
> language.

And I keep explaining to you that your opinion of my poem isn't that
ultimate authority, it is simply your opinion only, Harry Lime.

> Your poem depicts you groping a woman

Wrong, that's not really what happened. We were having a privacy moment,
talking, then kissing, and the new romance was progressing into a
foreplay stage.

BUT the dream ended before anything else happened.

This part is obviously part of the poem but I noticed neither of us have
actually mentioned that aspect of the poem and the depiction of events
there.

> you'd been barely acquainted with
> in high school, after having just bumped into her in public.

That's basically right but remember this is a dream IN a poem.

>  Apparently
> the groping

Again, groping isn't really the right word.

See above.

> was in response to her having said that you were so shy and
> quiet in high school that she'd thought that you were gay.

That was one part of our conversation and the girl, who i later called
Star Child definitely learned that was a mistaken impression.

And again, the poem, like many dreams, ends without a definitive
resolution.

And so it goes.