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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 06:29:18 +0000
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George J. Dance wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> 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

Good morning, agreed.

>>> 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 for reading and commenting.