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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 19:28:50 +0000
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On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 17:56:44 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 15:23:14 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>> HarryLime 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
>>>>>
>>>>> Good to see....
>
>>>> Thanks again, as I was telling Mummy Chunk, in 1982 when writing these
>>>> poems I
>>>> was highly influenced by 1950s Beat poets and 1980s punk rockers.
>>>>
>>>> So please excuse the foul language.
>
> Referring to a woman's vagina as a "hole" is considered both offensive
> and misogynistic

That's why I apologized for the foul language in the poem.

HTH and HAND.