I spent some of last evening wandering around the city centre looking for massive toads with my mum and daughter.
My mum is seventy five and has some trouble with her hips, so she's fucking dropped the next time we do this. There's no room for sentiment in the cut and thrust world of seeking out massive toads.
(Cave Duck, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 9:18, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Why look for massive toads?
Are you a witch?
( girlinthehole, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 9:21, Reply)

It's all Philip Larkin's fault.
www.larkin25.co.uk/larkin-with-toads.php
(Cave Duck, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 9:26, Reply)

Ah! I like Larkin.

( girlinthehole, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 9:34, Reply)

i hate Larkin
i had to study EVERY one of his poems for Higher English - what a fucking pain
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 9:40, Reply)

I like almost no poetry at all.
SHOCK NEWS.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 9:46, Reply)

haha

(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 9:48, Reply)

not even
roses are red
violets are blue
most poems rhyme
but this one doesn't
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 9:51, Reply)

Especially that one.
Sounds like the work of utter, utter spastic Roger McGough.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 10:18, Reply)

not even 16th century
dandy fop poetry?
( djtrialprice, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 9:55, Reply)

I like Coleridge

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 10:11, Reply)

he lived in the town where I went to school
not at the same time I hasten to add.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 10:14, Reply)

I'm with you there
Jabberwocky and some of the stuff in the Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy is about it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 10:04, Reply)

does Beowulf count as a poem?

(Halfy By light alone, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 10:20, Reply)

yeah, why not

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 10:21, Reply)

hahah
then I have some poetry!

I have some Milton rattling around one of my bookcases as well but it's so far down the "to read" list it might as well not be there
(Halfy By light alone, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 10:23, Reply)

My grandfather
was an authority on Milton.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 11:04, Reply)

I love the Boy Who Had Nails In His Eyes
it makes me happy and sad
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 10:36, Reply)

I read the Melancholy Death... in Fopp the other day
I'd forgotten his parents eat him.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 10:42, Reply)

When I lived in the countryside I hated having to drive after it had been raining heavily
because there would be frogs all over the road and I'd have to swerve all over the place like a drink driver to try and avoid them.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 9:43, Reply)