Warning. a poem by Jenny Joseph.
Warning / 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 sandlas, 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 /…