28/01/2013
27/01/2013
26/01/2013
25/01/2013
24/01/2013
continuing to live
Continuing To Live, Philip Larkin
Continuing to live - that is, repeat
A habit formed to get necessaries -
Is nearly always losing, or going without.
It varies.
This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise -
Ah, if the game were poker, yes,
You might discard them, draw a full house!
But it's chess.
And once you have walked the length of your mind, what
You command is clear as a lading-list.
Anything else must not, for you, be thought
To exist.
And what's the profit? Only that, in time,
We half-identify the blind impress
All our behavings bear, may trace it home.
But to confess,
On that green evening when our death begins,
Just what it was, is hardly satisfying,
Since it applied only to one man once,
And that one dying.
A habit formed to get necessaries -
Is nearly always losing, or going without.
It varies.
This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise -
Ah, if the game were poker, yes,
You might discard them, draw a full house!
But it's chess.
And once you have walked the length of your mind, what
You command is clear as a lading-list.
Anything else must not, for you, be thought
To exist.
And what's the profit? Only that, in time,
We half-identify the blind impress
All our behavings bear, may trace it home.
But to confess,
On that green evening when our death begins,
Just what it was, is hardly satisfying,
Since it applied only to one man once,
And that one dying.
22/01/2013
17/01/2013
reality hunger/poetry hunger and only a little bit of fiction at the moment
This pile does not include Sharon Olds, my current passion, who has just won the TS Eliot Award for poetry.
16/01/2013
14/01/2013
13/01/2013
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