Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit,
Whatever they are,
As bribes to teach them how to execute
Sixteen sexual positions on the sand;
This makes them join (the boys) the tennis club,
Jive at the Mecca, use deodorants, and
On Saturdays squire ex-schoolgirls to the pub
By private car.
Such uncorrected visions end in church
Or registrar:
A mortgaged semi- with a silver birch;
Nippers; the widowed mum; having to scheme
With money; illness; age. So absolute
Maturity falls, when old men sit and dream
Of naked native girls who bring breadfruit
Whatever they are.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Conversation Galante by T. S. Eliot
- La Figlia che Piange by T. S. Eliot
- Алексей Жемчужников – Так прочен в сердце и в мозгу
- Death Of A Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
- Владимир Британишский – Инициалы: Д.Я
- It’s no use by Sappho
- Алишер Навои – Чудесные свершения середины жизни
- Pain by Thomas Edward Brown
- Song—A Fiddler in the North by Robert Burns
- Mark The Concentrated Hazels That Enclose by William Wordsworth
- In Christ there is No East Or West by John Oxenham
- Олег Григорьев – Конфеты
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
- Жан де Лафонтен – Орел, Дикая Свинья и Кошка
- Coucy
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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.