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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 20:30:43 +0000
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On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 18:43:56 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 14:22:36 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>> General-Zod wrote:
>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>> Faraway Star 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
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > > The official version of this poem.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > > Yes, that matters.
>>>>>> > On y second read of this today, it captures that touch of Bukowski but
>>>>>> is fully a Doc story... superb...
>>>>>> Welcome back, Zod.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>>> I thank... good to be back...!
>>>
>>>> Great new art, by the way:
>>>
>>>> https://imgur.com/gallery/hth2PQb
>>>
>>>> https://imgur.com/gallery/BJgjm9m
>>>
>>> I thank
>>
>> Good morning again old pal.
>
> Has reopening one of your old duplicate threads with the same topic
> header made all of the other groups with the same header go away,

I don't control how these threads appear, Pendragon


Both JLA Forums and Nova BBS have some weird things happening that
breaks these threads like this, not me.

Perhaps Retro Guy or the JLA administrator can fix the problem, perhaps
not


> Your poem is still extremely misogynistic, demeaning and degrading to
> women,

I don't think so at all, as I've pointed out earlier, the poem is in the
Erotic poetry genre, and the characters are influenced by Beatnik and
1980s new wave and punk rock zeitgeist of those eras.

The poetry is a snapshot from 1982, very different times which you
apparently missed, Pendragon.

> objectifying, insensitive to the nth degree, and utterly beneath
> contempt.

Not at all, it's a very accurate depiction of a rock and roll romance
circa early 1980s


I know because I was there, I lived it.

And so it goes.