File under “Good advice, not taken”.

This be the verse

They fuck you up, your mum and dad,
they may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had,
and add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn,
by fools, in old style hats and coats,
who half the time were sorry stern,
and half at one anothers’ throats.

Man hands on misery to man,
it broadens like a coastal shelf.
So get out as quickly as you can,
and don’t have any kids yourself.

                           – Philip Larkin