Notes from a small island
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Sunday, March 28, 2004  

We met at the end of the party
When most of the drinks were dead
And all the glasses dirty:
"Here's this that's left," you said.
We walked through the last of summer,
When shadows reached long and blue
Across days that were growing shorter:
You said: "There's autumn too."
Always for you what's finished
Is nothing, and what survives
Cancels the failed, the famished,
As if we had fresh lives
From that night on, and just living
Could make me unaware
Of June, and the guests arriving,
And I not there.

--"We Met at the End of the Party", by Philip Larkin

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