Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.quux.org!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: mpsilvertone@yahoo.com (HarryLime) Newsgroups: alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.arts.poems Subject: Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 20:54:55 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <3f5e72b8e5a2ce5664bdbc696f3ee1c8@www.novabbs.com> References: <4d8b2b0d-ec79-49f0-8059-2e8036780694@googlegroups.com> <382aef26-6239-45d8-b9c8-56ee0158e8f4n@googlegroups.com> <37e7f0ac74772cbb1bebb4c5579daddc@news.novabbs.com> <11273bd3-99c7-4159-b9f1-ce1c8266b4b0n@googlegroups.com> <7b6951d3-6401-4a83-bcb6-5aff65141b1en@googlegroups.com> <05ff3659d34064b974adf8b33ac31936@news.novabbs.com> <43f043c97353d78df97649e30e269bf8@www.novabbs.com> <0dec149383de6559bb5d8272d6eb277f@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2701966"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="9yNNWN6S3jCL2bQghupeZ7yt9QQF3aIiWb2guQimaIw"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Posting-User: e04a750cbe04de725ce24a46bcc3953c76236e3b X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$zoxjH3BBSQJGBcKA6BDl1.ekmBvvxGddWi9BHdvCAywhcBCFspw2K X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 20:30:42 +0000, W.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: >>> General-Zod wrote: >>>> 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, Donkey, is that you post half a dozen threads with the same subject. > >> 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. >> objectifying, insensitive to the nth degree, and utterly beneath >> contempt. > > 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. So you sexually assaulted a woman you barely knew. Good to know. > And so it goes. --