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From: mpsilvertone@yahoo.com (HarryLime)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 16:41:40 +0000
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 16:20:57 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

> 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.

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.

Any apologies should be offered without qualification.

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