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I have this vision of myself as a little old lady covered in glitter and cackling
in a rest home somewhere...

(It's a nicer picture than I thought it would be. How odd. Me in a little motorized wheelchair, drawing cartoons on the walls and chasing around decrepit old men wearing too much black and declaiming Gothic poetry to the air...)

Eh? Eh? Speak up, there, ya little Whippersnappers!!

Date: 2001-11-27 01:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cynnerth.livejournal.com
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.

Buy 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.

Re:

Date: 2001-11-27 01:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] msfledermaus.livejournal.com
I love that poem so much...thanks, Cyn.

Date: 2001-11-27 01:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cynnerth.livejournal.com
Me too :)
You're welcome

Date: 2001-11-27 01:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serendipity.livejournal.com
Hey, you! I'll race you down the hall agin!

Re:

Date: 2001-11-27 02:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] msfledermaus.livejournal.com
C'mon an' catch me, ya crazy lady!!!!
*Waggles Hello Kitty cane in the air*

Let's scare the nurses willy-nilly!!! Woohoo!

Re:

Date: 2001-11-27 02:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serendipity.livejournal.com
Catch you? I'm way ahead of you, young'un!
*Zips by on her way to that handsome ol devil in Room 33.*

Date: 2001-11-27 02:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] msfledermaus.livejournal.com
"Ey!!! You got afterburners on there, ya cheater!!!"
*Zooms down the hall cussing and yelling after Ser the Speedy*

*VRRROOOOM*

Date: 2001-11-27 04:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] low-delta.livejournal.com
Hey! You kids keep it down out there! I'm tryina watch TV!

damn kids and their hot rod wheelchairs.

Re: *VRRROOOOM*

Date: 2001-11-28 07:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] msfledermaus.livejournal.com
*skrreeeeeeeeeeeee!!!*

*VROOOOOOOOOOM!!!*

Re: *VRRROOOOM*

Date: 2001-11-28 07:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] msfledermaus.livejournal.com
*skrreeeeeeeeeeeee!!!*

*VROOOOOOOOOOM!!!*

Re:

Date: 2001-11-27 09:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serendipity.livejournal.com
Whatsamatter? Isn't anyone else up for the race? What happened to our competition, anyway?

Re:

Date: 2001-11-28 06:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] msfledermaus.livejournal.com
*Ms Eff is seen whizzing down the hall with an orderly, tangled in inexpert black knitting, pulling the wheelchair at some speed while she pokes him repeatedly with kniting needles and yelling, "Ya, Mule!!!"*
"Heh heh heh , I'll catch up to Ser without any trouble now!!! Mush!!! Mush!!!"

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