Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery) Newsgroups: alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.arts.poems Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 22:15:36 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <7d15c8187f627cafb6264147daa8da2d@www.novabbs.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2866317"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="Vf9CM7g99yqfGvzEHTw0bhrjcIfvzYBBhUuRma0rLuQ"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Posting-User: acd0b3e3614eaa6f47211734e4cbca3bfd42bebc X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$yN40EEsYcASOoY7KpWwaiu3qQ0HsMveiEWr3ZEPitWTSNfox3P/XS X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Bytes: 3346 Lines: 76 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. Thanks again for helping correct the lies and misrepresentations and for helping set the record straight, George. 😏