High Windows by Larkin Philip

Author:Larkin, Philip [Larkin, Philip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571263240
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2012-10-03T23:00:00+00:00

This place accepts. All know they are going to die.

Not yet, perhaps not here, but in the end,

And somewhere like this. That is what it means,

This clean-sliced cliff; a struggle to transcend

The thought of dying, for unless its powers

Outbuild cathedrals nothing contravenes

The coming dark, though crowds each evening try

With wasteful, weak, propitiatory flowers.

Posterity

Jake Balokowsky, my biographer,

Has this page microfilmed. Sitting inside

His air-conditioned cell at Kennedy

In jeans and sneakers, he’s no call to hide

Some slight impatience with his destiny:

‘I’m stuck with this old fart at least a year;

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