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Thread #124276   Message #2743771
Posted By: Emma B
11-Oct-09 - 07:22 PM
Thread Name: TS Eliot named the nation's favourite poet
Subject: RE: BS: TS Eliot named the nation's favourite po
OK fellas - one from a contemporary female poet :)

Bloody men are like bloody buses -
You wait for about a year
And as soon as one approaches your stop
Two or three others appear.

You look at them flashing their indicators,
Offering you a ride.
You're trying to read the destinations,
You haven't much time to decide.

If you make a mistake, there is no turning back.
Jump off, and you'll stand there and gaze
While the cars and the taxis and lorries go by
And the minutes, the hours, the days.

Wendy Cope