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Adrian Mitchell Quotes

1932–2008 England

Adrian Mitchell (24 October 1932 – 20 December 2008) was an English poet, novelist, and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British left.

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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignore most people.

Poems (1964)

Here are some happy English soldiers.
They are going to make the Irish happy.

Now God killed John Lennon and he let Barry Manilow survive,
But the good Lord blessed little Adrian Mitchell with the fastest cock alive.

May I borrow your wheelbarrow?
— I didn't lay down my life in World War II
so that you could borrow my wheelbarrow

Lovers lie around in it
Broken glass is found in it
Grass
I like that stuff

I would have walked on the water
But I wasn't fully insured.
And the BMA sent a writ my way
With the very first leper I cured.

I was run over by the truth one day.
Ever since the accident I've walked this way

When I am sad and weary
When I think all hope has gone
When I walk along High Holborn
I think of you with nothing on

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Adrian Mitchell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.