Lives are so complicated. Love mixed with control and dash of cruelty. Phillip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse” x 1000.
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.
Sigh. Thx for that Phillip. You too, Sallie. Glad you have your daughter all to yourself now.
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Lives are so complicated. Love mixed with control and dash of cruelty. Phillip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse” x 1000.
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.
Sigh. Thx for that Phillip. You too, Sallie. Glad you have your daughter all to yourself now.