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[greenshadows]

This just posted by the fabulous amapola_t...I'd never read it before but googling reveals it dates from 1971 -

Philip Larkin - This Be The VerseThey fuck you up, your mum and dad

Comments

[m_cobweb]

Heh. I like that one so much I've memorized it, and will quote it with glee given the opportunity.

[greenshadows]

I'm amazed it's brand new to me...it shouldn't be. :b

[holyoutlaw]

Very funny, I like it. Yeah!

[greenshadows]

How did we get to be this old and semi-literate yet we've not encountered it before? Pretty sure I've not even heard of the poet. I wuz a englich majur, fer chrissakes!

[kejn]

isn't it wonderful how friends and even friends of friends on LJ can enrich your life?! :)

[greenshadows]

I could burst into song! :b (but Andy's sleeping)