Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!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: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 00:14:20 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <7e4a0ff829c727d13a0fe123821fc1a9@www.novabbs.com> References: <2be4d3111792e7366cab3909e2835c30@www.novabbs.com> <60dfaaf54cca2f169f9a2e4825c79784@www.novabbs.com> <7f6758c7e9ca14adb08a11084d70daa3@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="3345187"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="9yNNWN6S3jCL2bQghupeZ7yt9QQF3aIiWb2guQimaIw"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$MtluJQnH8Bzu9WSnJXQ3vO1hNbUrdwkpZYBJFe0DzziRaoujWK2RW X-Rslight-Posting-User: e04a750cbe04de725ce24a46bcc3953c76236e3b On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 20:04:36 +0000, W.Dockery wrote: > 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. > > Thanks again, George, and bumped, since Michael Pendragon is in a tizzy > trying to bury the post. Did you share a real life "romantic interlude" with the little freckled girl or not? --