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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 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 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.

-Jenny Joseph 1961

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Cameos Compilation (details) © Photo and collection RMO

Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, RMO Via artblart

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i am a perfectly nonchalant person. except on days where i crave love. then i choke up and go insane and begin howling at the moon

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when all this ends, i'll throw a party

by J. Sullivan

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@perseusnet quest 2: who is your godly parent? ↳ athena

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

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In your honest opinion, what does it mean to be human?

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all the glamour and the trauma and the fuckin' melodrama

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On deck now

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— 34 excuses for why we failed at love, Warsan Shire

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my favorite lines from this article about poetry from students grades 3-6

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Jenny Slate, Stage Fright (2019)

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musings on oranges

Alessia Di Cesare, Romero Barros, Wendy Cope, David Stevenson, Rebecca O’Connor, Andrea Kantrowitz, Nina LaCour, Augustin Rouart, Ocean Vuong, Chris Krupinski, Wendy Cope, Mickie Acierno, Jacques Prévert, Robert Spear Dunning, Wendy Cope

buy me a coffee

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some of my favourite faye wei wei works.

for ana mendieta (how much can a flower break your heart) // henry (the sun stuck to our skin) // boy with snake // the effect of moon baths was unknown