This Be The Verse

Um, no one ever says the second verse, and the second verse is important.

Larkin, this be the verse, "They fuck you up, your mum and dad.

They may not mean to, but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had and add some extra just for you." People stop there.

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Our opening and closing music is by De Kaiju at dekaiju.org. And for our closing quotation, I thought about quoting from the bleak but darkly funny poem about parenting by Philip Larkin, This Be The Verse.

But really, this story ends happier than Larkin expects.

So instead, I will quote from that well-known, totally optimistic comedy Brave New World, where Aldous Huxley says, "One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them." Thanks for listening, and have fun.