Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Great Regulars: [Philip Larkin] never wasted a reader's time

but spitefully resented his own being wasted through inane social activity. He opens "Vers de Société" by satirizing an invitation:

My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps
To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps

from Mary Karr: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice

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