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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 20:34:27 +0000
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On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 20:17:40 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 19:28:47 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 17:56:44 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 15:23:14 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>>>> HarryLime wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Referring to a woman's vagina as a "hole" is considered both offensive
>>> and misogynistic
>>
>> That's why I apologized for the foul language in the poem.
>
> But the *language* (the word "hole") isn't offensive.  What's offensive
> is how you *used* the word "hole."
>
> So you can't say that you've used "foul language."
>
> Since it's your comment that is offensive (not any of the individual
> words that you used in making it), it is your comment, not the
> "language" that proved "foul."
>
> The correct way to express it would be "I apologize for my offensive
> remark."
>
> --

Okay, I'll go with that.

I apologize for my offensive remark.

HTH and HAND.