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snurri ([personal profile] snurri) wrote2009-01-01 01:39 pm

Dorothy Parker Week Day Four

Bric-à-Brac

Little things that no one needs--
Little things to joke about--
Little landscapes, done in beads.
Little morals, woven out,
Little wreaths of gilded grass,
Little brigs of whittled oak
Bottled painfully in glass;
These are made by lonely folk.

Lonely folk have lines of days
Long and faltering and thin;
Therefore--little wax bouquets,
Prayers cut upon a pin,
Little maps of pinkish lands,
Little charts of curly seas,
Little plats of linen strands,
Little verses, such as these.

[identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com 2009-01-02 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
You can't be, 'cause I was! Also I was Napoleon, Gilgamesh, and Joan of Arc. YOU CAN'T PROVE IT'S NOT TRUE.

[identity profile] haddayr.livejournal.com 2009-01-02 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
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