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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 04:59:37 +0000
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HarryLime wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 20:54:52 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 20:30:42 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>>>> Faraway Star 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
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> > > The official version of this poem.
>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>> > > Yes, that matters.
>>>>>>>>>> > On y second read of this today, it captures that touch of Bukowski but
>>>>>>>>>> is fully a Doc story... superb...
>>>>>>>>>> Welcome back, Zod.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I thank... good to be back...!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Great new art, by the way:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://imgur.com/gallery/hth2PQb
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://imgur.com/gallery/BJgjm9m
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I thank
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good morning again old pal.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has reopening one of your old duplicate threads with the same topic
>>>>> header made all of the other groups with the same header go away,
>>>>
>>>> I don't control how these threads appear, Pendragon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Both JLA Forums and Nova BBS have some weird things happening that
>>>> breaks these threads like this, not me.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps Retro Guy or the JLA administrator can fix the problem, perhaps
>>>> not
>
>>>>> Your poem is still extremely

It's a poem about a specific place in time, the early 1980s era.

>>>> I don't think so at all, as I've pointed out earlier, the poem is in the
>>>> Erotic poetry genre, and the characters are influenced by Beatnik and
>>>> 1980s new wave and punk rock zeitgeist of those eras.
>>>>
>>>> The poetry is a snapshot from 1982, very different times which you
>>>> apparently missed, Pendragon.
>
>>>>> objectifying, insensitive

Again, it's only a poem, based on a dream.

>>>> Not at all, it's a very accurate depiction of a rock and roll romance
>>>> circa early 1980s

I know because I was there, I lived it.

>>> So you sexually assaulted

Not really, it's a poem based on a dream.

Not reality.

>> No, it was all consensual, read the poem.
>
> You do not say that it is consensual in the poem

It seems that it was obvious, though, actually.

> You leave it up to the reader to decide, based on the events which
> you've depicted in your poem's narrative.

The poem states it was in a dream so the reader should note that.