Marquis of Sadness - Momus

They’ve announced the new writer in residence

They’ve announced his name

But we’ll call him Marquis of Sadness

The professors say he’s sad

He’s the leading light of the Bitterati

But we will invite him to our party

I’ll get along quite nicely in this university

In my little office with its sofa and its key

They’ll call on me at all hours for gin and sympathy

Bringing bad but intimate poetry

They’ve announced the new writer in residence

And the cleverest girls in the arts faculty

Must read poetry in his presence

And if our poems are bad

They’ll still be evidence

Of our desire to make him desire us

I’ll get along quite nicely in this university

In my little office with its sofa and its key

They’ll call on me at all hours for gin and sympathy

Bringing bad but intimate poetry

Bad but intimate poetry

They’ve announced the new writer in residence

We’ve read all his books

And now we’re longing for his presence

And the more he tells us we’re bad

It might sound strange but in our madness

The more we’ll fall in love with the Marquis of Sadness

I’ll get along quite nicely in this university

In my little office with its sofa and its key

They’ll call on me at all hours for gin and sympathy

Bringing bad but intimate poetry

Bad but intimate poetry

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