“It's not their fault if, in the heat
Of their transactions, I repeat
It's not their fault if vampires meet
And gurgle in their spats.”

—  Mervyn Peake

Poem The men in bowler hats are sweet

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English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911–1968

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