Never on this side of the grave again.
Christina Rossetti
Synthetic coconut shies.
Whiskers absurdly long.
Give the show away.
Everything tawdry and shoddy.
Was it always so?
Were they as cheap looking
in one�s youth when one loved it all?
Does one get fastidious as one grows
older and the fair
always was rowdy
and dirty
and unappealing?
As we came away,
all Himself said was:
�Our poor park,
how untidy it is.�
Diary of a Sheffield housewife, August 1942. Diarist 5447 in the Mass Observation Project. Submitted by B.T. Joy.
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