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
- A Farewell to False Love by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Robert Burns: On Tam The Chapman:
- A Poem
- Where Is David, the Next King of Israel? by Vachel Lindsay
- Огюст Барбье – Мельпомена
- Love Is A Parallax by Sylvia Plath
- It Will Not Change by Sara Teasdale
- politeness.html
- The Alfresco Moment by Russell Edson
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Обвинение
- Touch-And-Go by Sylvia Plath
- The Quest XII (Vocation) by W H Auden
- Владимир Высоцкий – Так оно и есть
- Иннокентий Анненский – Гармония
- Holiday Letter For A Poet Gone To War
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.