Cheerful Words to Remember During the Holiday Season

Nov 28, 2008 11:32

This Be The Verse, by Phillip Larkin

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.
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I like it choisyleroi November 28 2008, 20:33:03 UTC
If we could just pull together twenty years of planet-wide Zero War I bet that generation's kids would be unrecognizable to us, poverty and crime notwithstanding.

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