Ooooh! Good call!Also, www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/L/larkin/images/portrait.jpg
Obligatory poem post:
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
(Obligatory poem post:
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!,
Wed 6 May 2009, 17:54,
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Larkin?At first I thought that photo was Eric Morecambe
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Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird,
Wed 6 May 2009, 17:55,
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Pfft!Too much misogyny for Morecambe ;)
( Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!,
Wed 6 May 2009, 17:56,
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our old biology teacher had the habit of making us recite poetry if we were late with our homeworkhis assignment delayed, a friend chose that poem to share with the class. he got halfway through the second line before he was asked to stop
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spacefish bong!,
Wed 6 May 2009, 18:04,
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Pfft!Some judge recited the poem in his summing up of a case in Family Court last week. I lol'd when I read about it :D
( Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!,
Wed 6 May 2009, 18:07,
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