When I Am Old.
～ Jenny Joseph

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat that 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 am 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 beer mats
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 will have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But 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!

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
～Marie Curie
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Warning : When I am old. 这首诗是老太太在1961年的时候写的 好多年后等她自己真的老了，翻出自己这首诗来读，萌点多多。

等我成了老妇人，我要穿紫衣服
戴红帽子，哪怕既不搭调也不适合。
我要把退休金花在白兰地酒和无指手套上
还要买绸缎凉鞋，然后谎称付不起牛油的钱。
累了，就坐在人行道
跑去商店疯夺展品，再按下警报
我要沿着公家的栏杆滑拐杖
来弥补年轻时循规蹈矩的遗憾。
我要穿着拖鞋走到雨里
去别人园里攀折花木
还要学会随地吐痰。
你大可衣着邋遢，不必担心长胖
一口气吃掉三磅香肠
或者一整周只吃泡菜和面包
把钢笔铅笔啤酒杯垫塞进木箱。
可现在，我们穿着无趣的衣服
偿还着房租，也不敢在街上把谁咒骂
为了孩子，我们必须树立榜样。
晚餐则须请来好友，饭后便一块读报。
不过，也许我应该现在开始练习？
这样，当我老了，穿紫衣服了
熟人朋友才不至过于惊奇，过于讶异。
VVN译。 @勿施勿忘

VULTURES are not exactly picky eaters. The carcasses on which they dine swiftly decompose, broken down by micro-organisms that excrete a range of nasty toxins. This makes decaying flesh a perilous source of food for most animals. Vultures, by contrast, either wait until their chosen corpse has decayed enough for them to peck through its often tough skin, or find a quicker way in via natural orifices. They frequently choose the fast-food route, inserting their head deep into the anus of large decomposing animals and exposing themselves to a mass of faeces-borne pathogens. Far from haute cuisine, then.
Just how far is described by the first-ever genomic analysis of the micro-organisms found on and in the facial skin and large intestine of vultures, published this week inNature Communications. Warning: this is not lunchtime reading.

Among an average of 528 types of bacterium found on the heads of 50 turkey and black vultures were those that can cause botulism, gangrene, tetanus, septicaemia, blood clots and metastatic abscesses in other animals. And although these birds did not have it, another study foundBacillus anthracisin vulture faeces. It causes anthrax, except in vultures.
Vultures clearly have strong stomachs, in every sense. With an acidity at least ten times that of a human’s, a vulture’s gut destroys a large amount of any potentially pathogenic bacteria that is ingested. Indeed, when the researchers analysed the contents of each bird’s large intestine, they could not detect some 85% of the micro-organisms they had found on its facial skin.

俺要开更第二首诗，卡俺能坚持多久！

On Marriage
～Kahlil Gibran

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

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