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  2. jazzygal says

    Powerful purple! Love it. For a long time yellow was my favourite colour but of late I'm becoming a bit passionate about purple too…

    xx Jazzy

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  7. Jean Tubridy says

    This post brings me so much to poetry and this poem in particular that I adore:

    Warning

    by

    Jenny Joseph

    WHEN I AM AN OLD WOMAN I SHALL WEAR PURPLE
    With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
    And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
    And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
    I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
    And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
    And run my stick along the public railings
    And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
    I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
    And pick the flowers in other people's gardens
    And learn to spit

    You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
    And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
    Or only bread and pickle for a week
    And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes

    But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
    And pay our rent and not swear in the street
    And set a good example for the children.
    We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

    But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
    So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
    When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

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