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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:31:13 +0000
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HarryLime wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>> General-Zod wrote:
>>> 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
>
> The only problem, is that you post half a dozen threads with the
> same subject.

No, you're confused again, Harry.

There's some kind of glitch in Nova BBS and JLA Forums that's causing
threads to "break" and form new threads rather than continuing in the
original thread.

I don't know why this happens but I think Retro Guy and M.T. from JLA
Forums are working on fixing it.

>> 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.
>
>> It's a very accurate depiction of a rock and roll romance
>> circa early 1980s

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