People who are afraid of themselves
Multiply themselves into families
And so divide themselves
And so become less afraid.

People who might have to go out
Into clanging strangers’ laughter,
Crowd under roofs, make compacts
To no more than smile at each other.

People who might meet their own faces
Or surprise their own voices in doorways
Build themselves rooms without mirrors
And live between walls without echoes.

People who might meet other faces
And unknown voices round corners
Build themselves rooms all mirrors
And live between walls all echoes.

People who are afraid to go naked
Clothe themselves in families, houses,
But are still afraid of death
Because death one day will undress them.

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External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

Talking Writing Monster’s Page –

Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Dublinesque by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• Dockery And Son by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• Days by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• Cut Grass by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• Counting by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• Continuing To Live by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• Church Going by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• Breadfruit by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• Best Society by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• Aubade by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• At Grass by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• Arrival by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• Annus Mirabilis by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• Ambulances by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• A Study Of Reading Habits by Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• You Can Have It by Philip Levine by Philip Levine
• Wisteria by Philip Levine by Philip Levine
• Where We Live Now by Philip Levine by Philip Levine
• What Work Is by Philip Levine by Philip Levine

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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