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Philip Larkin - As Bad as a Mile
Work rating: Medium

	Watching the shied core
	Striking the basket, skidding across the floor,
	Shows less and less of luck, and more and more
	 
	Of failure spreading back up the arm
	Earlier and earlier, the unraised hand calm,
	The apple unbitten in the palm.
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