hms duncan

visit to braehead shopping centre (on the banks of the River Clyde) this evening.
Spent some time in Waterstones, and came across this brilliant poem by Philip Larkin:

This Be the Verse

they f**k you up, your mum and dad.
they may not mean to, but they do.
they fill you with the faults they had
and add some extra, just for you.

but they were f**ked up in their turn
by fools in old-style hats and coats,
who half the time were soppy-stern
and half at one another's throats.

man hands on misery to man.
it deepens like a coastal shelf.
get out as early as you can,
and don't have any kids yourself.