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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 00:14:20 +0000
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On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 20:04:36 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

> 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
>>>> 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, George, and bumped, since Michael Pendragon is in a tizzy
> trying to bury the post.

Did you share a real life "romantic interlude" with the little freckled
girl or not?

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