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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 16:20:59 +0000
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Harry Lime continues to lie and misrepresent about my poem, so 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.

Once again, all apologies to those offended.

And so it goes.