Thinking of Philip Larkin

Never was no white man had the blues, so Leadbelly said,

Til Larkin came along–Larkin, like a fungus, invisible–

He stained margin after margin.

Sweet as iodine, dysmorphic,

I see my coffin coming

Lordy Lord in my back door…

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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