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   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   >> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >   
   > >>>>>> "I Met A Girl"   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> "And Within A Week A Judge Forbade Me To Go Within Ten Miles Of Her"   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> All in your imagination, PJR.   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> In 1982, perhaps.   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> In 2025, if you met a girl, and "put [your] finger to her hole,"   
   you'd be thrown in jail.   
   >   
   > >>>>> You've forgotten that the poem is based on a dream, anyhow, apparently.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Poetry and dreams are not "real life."   
   >   
   > >>>> Dream or not, your poem depicts a minor (implied by "girl")   
   >   
   > >>> For starters, she would be a little younger than my 24 years of age in   
   May 1982.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Secondly, the use of "girl" referring to a female romantic interest in   
   poetry and song is traditional.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> See The Beatles' "Girl":   
   > >>>   
   > >>> https://youtu.be/NaXXmpjaIq4?si=-XdBVG5-UTLGDrMV   
   > >>>   
   > >>> And Billy Joel's "Hey Girl":   
   > >>>   
   > >>> https://youtu.be/tMfLKrGvCzI?si=38fUyrH2A7bcjT3v   
   > >>>   
   > >>> HTH and HAND.   
   >   
   > >> Age is not the issue   
   > >   
   > > You tried to make it an issue until I just shot you down over that.   
   > >   
   > > HTH and HAND.   
   >   
   > You haven't shot anything down   
      
   If never expect you to admit it, Pendragon.   
      
   The poem is also a work of fiction,ba poem based on a dream.   
      
   Which shoots you down from a completely different direction.   
      
   HTH and HAND   
      
   --   
   Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:   
   https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery   
      
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