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A la recherche du temps perdu: Mood Six

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A la recherche du temps perdu: Mood Six

Mood Six seems to be a promising collection of good Tumblr things, from someone whose posts I already often like, and others I’m intrigued to see more from.

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I’m very honored to be part of this exciting new Tumblr and among such fine people. Please reblog, follow, and spread the word. These are all wonderful people whom you likely follow individually; the idea of a collective Tumblr and the dialogue that these different mediums can have with one…

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“Homage to a Government”

Next year we are to bring the soldiers home
For lack of money, and it is all right.
Places they guarded, or kept orderly,
Must guard themselves, and keep themselves orderly.
We want the money for ourselves at home
Instead of working. And this is all right.

It’s hard to say who wanted it to happen,
But now it’s been decided nobody minds.
The places are a long way off, not here,
Which is all right, and from what we hear
The soldiers there only made trouble happen.
Next year we shall be easier in our minds.

Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
The statues will be standing in the same
Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same.
Our children will not know it’s a different country.
All we can hope to leave them now is money.

1969

—Philip Larkin, Collected Poems