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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 21:38:34 +0000
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 20:54:52 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 20:30:42 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 18:43:56 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 14:22:36 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>>>>>> Faraway Star 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...
>>>>>>>> Welcome back, Zod.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> I thank... good to be back...!
>>>>>
>>>>>> Great new art, by the way:
>>>>>
>>>>>> https://imgur.com/gallery/hth2PQb
>>>>>
>>>>>> https://imgur.com/gallery/BJgjm9m
>>>>>
>>>>> I thank
>>>>
>>>> Good morning again old pal.
>>>
>>> Has reopening one of your old duplicate threads with the same topic
>>> header made all of the other groups with the same header go away,
>>
>> I don't control how these threads appear, Pendragon
>>
>>
>> Both JLA Forums and Nova BBS have some weird things happening that
>> breaks these threads like this, not me.
>>
>> Perhaps Retro Guy or the JLA administrator can fix the problem, perhaps
>> not
>
> The only problem

As if a Google Groups person like you could understand Usenet.

>>> Your poem is still extremely misogynistic, demeaning and degrading to
>>> women,
>>
>> I don't think so at all, as I've pointed out earlier, the poem is in the
>> Erotic poetry genre, and the characters are influenced by Beatnik and
>> 1980s new wave and punk rock zeitgeist of those eras.
>>
>> The poetry is a snapshot from 1982, very different times which you
>> apparently missed, Pendragon.
>
> Admittedly, I've never groped a young woman 2 minutes after meeting her.

That's not in the poem, Pendragon.

>> Not at all, it's a very accurate depiction of a rock and roll romance
>> circa early 1980s
>>
>>
>> I know because I was there, I lived it.

HTH and HAND.