Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life?Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off?Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison—Just for paying a few bills! That’s out of proportion.

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Philip Larkin was a 20th-century English poet, novelist and librarian. Philip Arthur Larkin was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947). Read more on Wikipedia →

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