July 2011
June 2011
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Poetry of Departures—Philip Larkin
Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand,
As epitaph:
He chucked up everything
And just cleared off,
And always the voice will sound
Certain you approve
This audacious, purifying,
Elemental move.
And they are right, I think.
We all hate home
And having to be there:
I detect my room,
Its specially-chosen junk,
The good books, the good bed,
And my life, in perfect order:
So to hear it said
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