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Author Topic: If we must die  (Read 7312 times)

Offline Smirker

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Re: If we must die
« Reply #30 on: April 13, 2016, 12:23:19 PM »
This poem's a great deal like Gabby
It starts off not looking too shabby
Then it all gets too much
And it loses its touch
And the finish is absolutely fucking abysmal.

C. Bysshe Bathhouse

I love it.

Offline Dr Butler

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Re: If we must die
« Reply #31 on: April 13, 2016, 12:26:56 PM »
can't do poems
can't do happy
but...


UTV
The Doc

Offline prmort

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Re: If we must die
« Reply #32 on: April 13, 2016, 12:42:57 PM »
Our football it's said was atrocious
The other teams managed to roast us
We always get beat
Just like Gabbys meat
At least we’ve not all got a virus.

Offline mikeb1982

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Re: If we must die
« Reply #33 on: April 13, 2016, 01:10:11 PM »
They fuck you up, these villa boys
While having such an easy life
Half the time they kick a ball
And half in someone else's wife

Sport is but a trivial thing
Entertainment for the lads
But players care more for their bling
And the result is really fucking bad

If Larkin was a Villa fan...

Offline mr underhill

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Re: If we must die
« Reply #34 on: April 13, 2016, 01:21:36 PM »
 there is a Larkin poem that references Villa Park but I can't remember the title

Offline Chico Hamilton III

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Re: If we must die
« Reply #35 on: April 13, 2016, 01:23:03 PM »
there is a Larkin poem that references Villa Park but I can't remember the title

MCMXIV

Offline fbriai

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Re: If we must die
« Reply #36 on: April 13, 2016, 01:25:05 PM »
I think the Rubaiyat is more appropriate at the moment:

Quote
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

Offline cdward

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Re: If we must die
« Reply #37 on: April 13, 2016, 01:58:34 PM »
Alfititimus did once decry,
That heroes and villains were all asinine,
However rapscallion, while i differ to beg,
What would you rather be, a sausage or an egg?


 
« Last Edit: April 13, 2016, 02:23:13 PM by cdward »

Offline The Laughing Policeman

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Re: If we must die
« Reply #38 on: April 13, 2016, 04:34:46 PM »
there is a Larkin poem that references Villa Park but I can't remember the title

MCMXIV
First verse.......
Quote
Those long uneven lines
Standing as patiently
As if they were stretched outside
The Oval or Villa Park,
The crowns of hats, the sun
On moustached archaic faces
Grinning as if it were all
An August Bank Holiday lark;

Offline West Derby Villan

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Re: If we must die
« Reply #39 on: April 13, 2016, 05:09:05 PM »
Alfititimus, you must surely applaud that? Classy.

 


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