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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 22:20:48 +0000
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General-Zod 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...

David Bowie knew about the dream multiverse:

https://youtu.be/b_EZITEBsPk?si=Y_yukpng46auoopV