I Call My Latest Halloween Get Up “The Real Me”
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October 29th, 2010 3:39 pm
Love that purple hair!
October 29th, 2010 4:11 pm
AKA When I’m Old I Shall Wear Purple:
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 peoples’ 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 pickles 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 practise a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
~Jenny Joseph
October 29th, 2010 4:45 pm
I love the poem. The Red Hat Ladies in Mississippi try to wear purple dresses and blouses with their red hats… they are very spicy southern belles.
October 30th, 2010 6:26 am
Purple suits you…I think.
October 31st, 2010 9:59 am
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November 1st, 2010 6:55 pm
I mentioned this already, but it must of been on facebook. You remind me of Andrew for some reason, I see him in this picture.
xo
November 2nd, 2010 9:08 am
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November 22nd, 2010 6:09 pm
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October 30th, 2011 7:39 pm
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November 1st, 2015 7:17 pm
[…] doesn’t express or contradict any part of my psyche, which is usually what I go for with my yearly Halloween get-ups. I’ve never even played a Mario video game (or any video game for that matter), but we got the […]