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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: The Return of Michael Monkey
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 19:39:35 +0000
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On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 18:02:55 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>> George J Dance wrote:

>> Michael Monkey Peabrain aka "HarryLime" wrote:
>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>> MummyChunk wrote:
>
>>>> Again, why do you lie and misrepresent so much, monkey boy Michael
>>>> Pendragon?
>
>>>> Just curious.
>
>>>> The problem with you is that you lie and misrepresent so much, Michael
>>> Pendragon.
>
>>>> Of course I don't expect you to admit it, Pendragon.
>
>>>>>>>>> Oh, so HarryLiar wants proof? Let's look at his next paragraph:
>
>>>>>>>>> Harry Liar reposted an "edited" poem Will had written over 40 years ago
>>>>>>>>> about a dream he'd had. You reposted part of the poem, snipping the line
>>>>>>>>> about it being a dream, to falsely accuse him of sexual assault.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Here's the thread, so readers can see for themselves:
>>>>>>>>> https://www.novabbs.com/arts/article-flat.php?id=15788&group=rec.arts.poems#15788
>
>>>>>>>> Never mind the Harry Lime bullocks, 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
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ***
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Again, 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.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Both styles employed a sort of crude swagger in the tone and content
>>>>>>>> which I also used in many of my poems.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Again, all apologies to those offended.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> HTH and HAND, again.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 😏
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And again, the poem is your attempt to recast what can only be seen as
>>>>>>> an act of  sexual assault (at least insofar as it's depicted in your
>>>>>>> poem) as a "romantic interlude" from you past.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, that's your attempt to misrepresent the meaning of my poem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HTH and HAND.
>>
>>>
>>> You had a dream
>>
>> That's correct.
>>
>>
>>> “Yes, the poem itself is based on a dream I had 43 years ago
>>;
>> Autocorrect typo fixed.
>
> Riiiight.

Exactly.

😏