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From: George J. Dance@novabbs.com (George J. Dance)
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Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 21:14:44 +0000
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 18:12:37 +0000, W.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.