How
Philip Arthur Larkin
1922 to 1985
How high they build hospitals!
Lighted cliffs, against dawns
Of days people will die on.
I can see one from here.
How cold winter keeps
And long, ignoring
Our need now for kindness.
Spring has got into the wrong year.
How few people are,
Held apart by acres
Of housing, and children
With their shallow violent eyes.
Philip Arthur Larkin's How
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