Poetry and Stuff

[Sextent]

The end of love

The end of love should be a big event.

It should involve the hiring of a hall.

Why the hell not? It happens to us all.

Why should it pass without acknowledgement?

Suits should be dry-cleaned, invitations sent.

Whatever form it takes – a tiff, a brawl –

The end of love should be a big event.

It should involve the hiring of a hall.

Better than the unquestioning descent

Into the trap of silence, than the crawl

From visible to hidden, door to wall.

Get the announcements made, the money spent.

The end of love should be a big event.

It should involve the hiring of a hall.

[Sextent]

Oh, in case anyone thinks I'm plagiarizing, that's by Sophie Hannah.

[chalice]

Slough

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.

And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.

But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.

It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead

And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead.

In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.

Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.

John Betjeman.

[Sextent]

FFS Betjeman wrote The Office.

[chalice]

FFS Betjeman wrote The Office.

Indeed, agreed, he did plant that seed.

[Sextent]

FFS Betjeman wrote The Office.

Indeed, agreed, he did plant that seed.

:earl:

[mr. youknowwho]

its good to see ive left a good impression on this shithole, aim much higher young ones, and it soon be thy.

-Vergent Tallion

[Mr JP Fugley]

It's Mr Kennedy ... Kennedy.

Am I right.