BlueIris
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Sun Apr-13-08 04:35 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 4/13/08 |
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Edited on Sun Apr-13-08 04:56 PM by BlueIris
"Symphony Recital"
I do not like my state of mind; I'm bitter, querulous, unkind. I hate my legs, I hate my hands, I do not yearn for lovelier lands. I dread the dawn's recurrent light; I have to go to bed at night. I snoot at simple, honest folks. I cannot take the gentlest joke. I find no peace in paint or type. My world is but a lot of tripe. I'm disillusioned, empty-breasted. I am not sick, I am not well. My quondam dreams are shot to hell. My soul is crushed, my spirit sore; I do not like me anymore. I cavil, quarrel, grumble, grouse. I ponder on the narrow house. I shudder at the thought of men... I'm due to fall in love again.
—Dorothy Parker
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Sun Apr-13-08 05:50 PM
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Sun Apr-13-08 07:02 PM
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Ahhhhhhhhhhh...Dorothy Parker!
What a dame!
This is wonderful, as is all her stuff...
Thank you!
:hug:
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Sun Apr-13-08 07:04 PM
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3. Yeah, you can never really have too much Dorothy Parker. |
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Sun Apr-13-08 08:02 PM
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"I am not sick, I am not well. My quondam dreams are shot to hell."
How well I know that. :(
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