A SOCIAL LIFE, WITH FRIENDS

A SOCIAL LIFE, WITH FRIENDS

You want a social life, with friends

A poem by Kenneth Koch

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You Want a Social Life, with Friends
by Kenneth Koch

You want a social life, with friends.
A passionate love life and as well
To work hard every day. What’s true
Is of these three you may have two
And two can pay you dividends
But never may have three.

There isn’t time enough, my friends–
Though dawn begins, yet midnig…

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