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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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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
>>
>> An all time favorite, certainly should land a spot in the SHADOWVILLE
>> MYTHOS volume...

As you can see, the context in the above poem is clear, written in 1982,
a full five years after my years at Carver High School.

And so it goes.

> This is a response to the post seen at:
> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=659116861#659116861