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— for Chien-Ling Liu
In a Time of Cuisine
A fact the gourmet
euphemism can’t silence:
vegetarians eat sex,
carnivores eat violence.
— Les Murray, April 2004
Fair Play
Herbivorous scruples
betoken the coward —
men eat flesh on credit
ere they get devour’d.
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Marriage
My wife and I — we’re pals. Marriage is fun.
Yes: two can live as stupidly as one.
— Philip Larkin, January 1954
PoesyMy wife and I — we’re pals. Marriage is fun.
Yes: two can live as stupidly as one.
— Philip Larkin, January 1954
My readers are my friends, my verses true enough.
If I can fool myself, the world will buy my bluff.