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Unread 03-24-2009, 06:16 PM
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I thought Wanking was a town in China until I discovered Larkin. The poem is on page 215.
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I thought Wanking was a town in China until I discovered Larkin. The poem is on page 215.
OOH! So it is ;-)
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How about:

Pound stinker
Eliot thinker
Wilde winker
Neruda pinker*
Bukowski drinker
Betjeman blinker
Heaney tinker
Basho linker**

*OK I only know Neruda in English translation
**Ditto above and...Renga anyone?
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