Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Look Back in Despair - poem

Lawrence Hall
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poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

Look Back in Despair

Oh, looking back in anger is right for some
For others, looking back in pale despair
In a nowhere street in a nowhere town
Where all their youthful dreams have gone to die

For though angry young man might live to be
Despairing old men still at a kitchen sink
Other young men – they never lived at all
So we are right to save their dreams, and live

There still must be a kitchen sink somewhere,
And a wilting flower in a mayonnaise jar


(Cf. John Osborne’s play Look Back in Anger)

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