Jenny Joseph: ‘When I am an old Woman, I shall wear Purple’

You probably know Jenny Joseph’s brilliant poem, Warning?  It’s on the Scottish Poetry Library website.   The kind of poem you remember from time to time, and laugh wrily.

Well, I thought I’d make a dress. It’d be nice for my last librarianly day.  I cut it out this afternoon.  At that point, I realised.

What Have I Done?

I never thought when I chose that fabric … Well, too late now. I’d better get a red hat.

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