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From: mpsilvertone@yahoo.com (HarryLime)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 16:50:26 +0000
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 15:55:22 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 15:50:04 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 15:41:10 +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.
>>
>> Your poem makes it out to be
>
> No, that's just your misrepresentation of my poem, Pendragon.

I call Donkeyshit!

Answer my question, Donkey.

If you ran into some guy you'd barely known in high school, and after
exchanging a few words, he planted a kiss on you and stuck his finger up
your butthole, would you consider that to have been "making out"?

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