Frances Sackett
Conversing with Larkin
Would you have been morbid
About genetic engineering?
I know you mourned the lost England;
The pre-war innocence.
“Never such innocence again”
You said. So what would you say now,
To the cloning programmes,
Organs passing from animal to human,
The frozen embryos waiting
Until a couple feel able to cope
With a child. Or have earned enough
Money to let it enter the material world.
You said - “They fuck you up, your mum and dad.”
Well, that’s old hat now.
Lesbians can do it,
Husbands from the grave can do it,
And women are doing it for themselves, mate.
I’m sure you would have written about it though.
Finger on the pulse of life
Always watching from that high window
You would have seen things
Happening under our noses
We haven’t even dreamt of yet.
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