Saturday, 25 December 2010

Burns Outing by Philip Larkin, 1984

Saturday Morning
I go for meat,
Body all aching
Likewise the feet,
Fools at my elbow
Gormlessly greet,
Shopping is hell
in stupidity street.

3 comments:

Steerforth said...

I made the mistake of going to Asda in Hollinbury a couple of days ago. In addition to the usual fat, unwashed, pasty-faced clientele, there were people who were genuinely malfomed, as if they belonged to a hitherto undiscovered subspecies of humanity.

Even uglier than the people was the realisation that I'm not a very nice person. I entered Asda as a wolly liberal and left as a eugenics-obsessed neo-Nazi. I must remember not to go back there unless I have to.

Anonymous said...

Happy Christmas, I have been enjoying your blog for a couple of months, your combination of misery and reluctant good nature is strangely cheering.
keep on blogging

Richard de Pesando MA(RCA) said...

HOLLINGTON!!!!! Oh dear God.

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