A Study of Reading Habits
Philip Arthur Larkin
1922 to 1985
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When getting my nose in a book
Cured things short of school,
It was worth ruining eyes
To know I could still keep cool,
deal out the old right hook
To dirty twice my size.
Later, with inch-thick specs,
Evil was my lark.
Me and my cloak and fangs
ripping times in the dark
The women I with sex!
I broke them up like meringues.
Don't much now: the dude
Who lets the girl before
The hero arrives, the chap
Who's and keeps the store,
Seem far too familiar. stewed:
Books are a load of crap.