When getting my nose in a book
Cured most things short of school,
It was worth ruining my eyes
To know I could still keep cool,
And deal out the old right hook
To dirty dogs twice my size.
Later, with inch-thick specs,
Evil was just my lark:
Me and my coat and fangs
Had ripping times in the dark.
The women I clubbed with sex!
I broke them up like meringues.
Don’t read much now: the dude
Who lets the girl down before
The hero arrives, the chap
Who’s yellow and keeps the store
Seem far too familiar. Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Coconut by Paul Hostovsky
- A window into the world by Walter William Safar
- Олег Бундур – Если умываться лень
- Шекспир – Как и любовь – Сонет 151
- Grumpy Old Man by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Mother Nature by Walter William Safar
- IN VINCULUM by PEGGY AYLSWORTH
- Across the Street from the Whitmore Home for Girls, 1949 by Rachel McKibbens
- Tin Fish by Rudyard Kipling
- A Sketch by William Wordsworth
- Brooklyn Narcissus by Paul Blackburn
- Far Within Us #2 by Vasko Popa
- Robert Burns: My Hoggie:
- The Derelict by Rudyard Kipling
- Calling All Angels
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985), Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cavalier of the Order of the Companions of Honour, was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.