up there with the tweet that went "we get it poets, things are like other things", which I am now unable not to think about whenever I come across even enjoyable poetry - ThreadSky

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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com • 14 hours ago

up there with the tweet that went "we get it poets, things are like other things", which I am now unable not to think about whenever I come across even enjoyable poetry

Reposted from Tom Cox

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time.

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betarish.bsky.social•14 hours ago

yeah, that one gets thrown back *a lot* at me, especially by the poetry sceptics, shall we say.

emilyoram.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Which is frankly a rarity!

stuartwhomsley.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Fleabag: a posh woman talking about wanking

ervinsperla.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Genius

janehill.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I love both of these.

dianepearson.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I wished I'd written this on my O level English Lit exam 1970.

spinkysmama.bsky.social•14 hours ago

My GCSE English teacher point blank refused to teach the Arthur Miller or Tennessee Williams syllabus options because “they all end with men crying”.

haiderbahrani.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Dreary
Weary
Eerie
Theory
Dearie

#poetry

papafrew.bsky.social•9 hours ago

“A girl changes her mind and a man changes his manners”

dorienjames.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I’ve climbed above 4000m on four continents, run the Snowdon Race 15 times, been helicoptered off a glacier, and still nod in agreement with that one pointing out that Ben Nevis is very steep and too high.