Miss Larkin: Poet Laureate

Philip Larkin Holidaying on Sark 1955 

MISS LARKIN:

POET LAUREATE

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Hatchet-faced Thatcher—

And the lion-faced Queen

Called me yesterday

John Betjeman was dead—

And the British Empire was

In need of a Poet again

A Poet Laureate desperately—

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!!

(It was a collect call)

Britannia was simply shocked—

When I told them to fuck off

“Pick the Yorkshire Killer instead!!!”