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Jenny Joseph: I shall go...

Source: DRAMATISTS

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.

Source: Warning, lines 9 to 11.
-- Jenny Joseph, (May 7 1932-2018), British poet; She is best known for her poem Warning, a.k.a. When I am an old woman I shall wear purple.


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