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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:51:43 +0000
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George J. Dance wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 21:14:42 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
>>> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 18:12:37 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That's a very strange dream sequence, Will.
>>>>>
>>>>>> ***
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>> It does sound a bit like Bukowski. It actually reminded me most of a
>>>>> Bukowski wannabe who used to post here, who shall go nameless.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HTH and HAND.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't see why anyone in their right mind would be offended by a dream
>>>>> you had more than 40 years ago; but given some of the people nn the
>>>>> group these days, it's probably best to cover oneself.
>>>>
>>>> Harry Lime aka Michael Pendragon is apparently in a tizzy over it
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. I noticed him writing about it another thread, writing about this
>>> poem, which is what brought me here to check it out in the first place.
>>> He was of course misrepresenting it as a real incident, rather than a
>>> dream you'd written a poem about, hoping no one would come here to check
>>> it.

Again, well put, George.

😏