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  • Re: Poetry and Prose
     Reply #60 - January 31, 2012, 05:35 PM
    Philip Larkin - This Be The Verse

    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.
    Started from the bottom, now I'm here
    Started from the bottom, now my whole extended family's here

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