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1. "New SeasonNo coats today. Buds bulge on chestnut trees,And on the doorstep of a big, old houseA young man stands and plays his flute.I watch the silver notes fly upAnd circle in the blue sky above the traffic,Travelling where they will.And suddenly this paving-stoneMidway between my front door and the bus stopIs a starting point.From here I can go anywhere I choose." ~ Wendy Cope
2. "My heart has made its mind upAnd I'm afraid it's you.Whatever you've got lined up,My heart has made its mind upAnd if you can't be signed upThis year, next year will do.My heart has made its mind upAnd I'm afraid it's you." ~ Wendy Cope
3. "On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes,the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes.I wipe them away with a black woolly gloveAnd try not to notice I've fallen in loveOn Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think:This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink.But the juke-box inside me is playing a songThat says something different. And when was it wrong?On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hairI am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care.the head does its best but the heart is the boss-I admit it before I am halfway across" ~ Wendy Cope
4. "The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell.His absence wasn't a problemBut the corkscrew had gone as well." ~ Wendy Cope
5. "Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion." ~ Wendy Cope
6. "At lunchtime I bought a huge orangeThe size of it made us all laugh.I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—They got quarters and I had a half.And that orange it made me so happy,As ordinary things often doJust lately. The shopping. A walk in the parkThis is peace and contentment. It's new.The rest of the day was quite easy.I did all my jobs on my listAnd enjoyed them and had some time over.I love you. I'm glad I exist." ~ Wendy Cope
7. "Nine-Line TrioletHere's a fine mess we got ourselves into,My angel, my darling, true love of my heartEtcetera. Must stop it but I can't begin to.Here's a fine mess we got ourselves into -Both in spin with nowhere to spin to,Bound by the old rules in life and in art.Here's a fine mess we got ourselves into,(I'll curse every rule in the book as we part)My angel, my darling, true love of my heart." ~ Wendy Cope
8. "A Green Song(to sing at the bottle-bank)One green bottle,Drop it in the bank.Ten green bottles,What a lot we drank.Heaps of bottlesAnd yesterday's a blank.But we'll save the planet,Tinkle, tinkle, clank!We've got bottles -Nice, percussive trash.Bags of bottlesCleaned us out of cash.Empty bottles,We love to hear them smashAnd we'll save the planet,Tinkle, tinkle, crash!" ~ Wendy Cope
9. "Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up." ~ Wendy Cope
10. "I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots." ~ Wendy Cope
11. "I like a quiet life." ~ Wendy Cope
12. "There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all." ~ Wendy Cope
13. "Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear." ~ Wendy Cope
14. "I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance." ~ Wendy Cope
15. "I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986." ~ Wendy Cope
16. "I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more." ~ Wendy Cope
17. "Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier." ~ Wendy Cope
18. "I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it." ~ Wendy Cope
19. "I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'" ~ Wendy Cope
20. "In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it." ~ Wendy Cope
21. "Making Cocoa For Kingsley AmisIt was a dream I had last weekAnd some kind of record seemed vital.I knew it wouldn't be much of a poemBut I love the title." ~ Wendy Cope

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