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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"   
      
   https://youtube.com/watch?v=_PmvcNSxE18&si=AmQ6Pi-P1PaEYdns   
      
   > >>>> 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 sure tried to make it an issue, Pendragon.   
      
   Your hero Edgar Allan Poe married his 13 year old cousin while you go into a   
   tizzy over me making out with a 24 year old friend of mine from high school.   
      
   Never mind it was just a poem.   
      
   --   
   Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:   
   https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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