When I see a couple of kids
And guess he’s fucking her and she’s
Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm,
I know this is [the] paradise [that]
Everyone old has dreamed of... *
Except that she might be just fourteen
and he seventeen and there was no consent
and both have violent fathers
and their mothers keep breaking down in sobs
and neither have jobs...
* the first 5 lines of High Windows, by Philip Larkin.
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