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   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery   
   26 Jan 26 12:41:41   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Cujo DeSockpuppet  posted:   
      
   > Will Dockery  wrote in   
   > news:1768720455-3274@newsgrouper.org   
   >> mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   >>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >   
   > >> >> You've forgotten that the poem is based on a dream, anyhow,   
   > >> >> apparently.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> Poetry and dreams are not "real life."   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> Here ^^^   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> Dockery: The person in the poem is around 24 years old, far from   
   > >> >> the age you continue to misrepresent her as being.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> Over 40 years later she'll now be in her 60s.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> MMP: You don't mention her age in the poem   
   > >>   
   > >> > Her age can easily be figured out.   
   > >> >   
   > >> > She attended high school with me, 6 or so years before the events   
   > >> > of the poem, which was written in May of 1982.   
   > >>   
   > >> Do you understand what the *content* of a poem is?   
   > >   
   > > Of course I do.   
   > >   
   > >> The problem with your poem   
   > >   
   > > Exactly, it's just a poem based on a dream.   
   > >   
   > > It isn't real life.   
   > >   
   > >> sexually assaulting  a 24-year-old woman   
   > >> who is under the influence of drugs   
   > >   
   > > That didn't happen.   
   > >   
   > > That's your misrepresentation of my poem.   
   >   
   > in denial   
      
   I deny the accuracy of Pendragon's interpretation of my poem, yes.   
      
   HTH and HAND.   
      
      
   --   
   Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:   
   https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery   
      
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