counting up ...

Here in the UK, it's National Poetry Day tomorrow, and this year's theme is counting ... here's a classic Philip Larkin poem, about just that, and so much more:


Counting

Thinking in terms of one
Is easily done—
One room, one bed, one chair,
One person there,
Makes perfect sense; one set
Of wishes can be met,
One coffin filled.

But counting up to two
Is harder to do;
For one must be denied
Before it's tried.

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Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985)

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