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Home Is So Sad

By Philip Larkin

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go

(…)

Having no heart to put aside the theft

And turn again to what it started as,

(…)

Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase.

 

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