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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 14:06:03 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 18:12:37 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 14:27:25 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 14:08:38 +0000, Will-Dockery wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> I Met A Girl
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I met a girl
>>>
>>> By Will Dockery
>>>
>>>>>> She was a little freckled girl
>>>>>> from out of
>>>>>> my high school past.
>>>>>> At this point I kissed her
>>>>>> and put my finger to her hole.
>>>
>>> Edited for effect
>>
>> Vandalized for misrepresentation is more like it.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> ***
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> All apologies to those offended.
>
> I suppose that's a start.
>
> Of course, an apologize is supposed to include owning up to one's
> mistake -- not attempting to justify it as beatnik inspired swagger.
>
> You need to recognize that groping a woman you've just met is wrong.
> Regardless of whether she's a punk rocker, or that you were acting under
> the influence of beatnik poets.  Groping is wrong because it's a form of
> sexual assault, and a violation of a woman's body.
>
> --

You're misrepresenting the scene again, Pendragon we were just having
some fun, kissing and "making out" a little, as the young folks used to
call it.

Nothing as serious as you want to make it out to be.

HTH and HAND.