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and the gods of the copybook headings limped up to explain it once more...

• red-iron-pine 4y ago
  What are you invoking Kipling for? Cuz it sounds like something profoundly sex negative, and makes me think of Glen Beck (who used to love to flog the poem).
• motohagiography 4y ago
  Unexpected Auden. If I died of oral sex related throat cancer, when I'm gone I hope they will say of me, 'tta boy.
  • recursivedoubts 4y ago
    like most of us, I doubt they will say much at all...
  • Georgelemental 4y ago
    Kipling, not Auden https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_copybook.htm https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_copybook.htm
    • motohagiography 4y ago
      Ah, easy mistake. Auden always seemed more critical and political than Kipling.