Marquis of Sadness

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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