- Resumé
- BY DOROTHY PARKER
- Razors pain you;
- Rivers are damp;
- Acids stain you;
- And drugs cause cramp.
- Guns aren’t lawful;
- Nooses give;
- Gas smells awful;
- You might as well live.
- Dorothy Parker, “Resumé” from The Portable Dorothy Parker, edited by Brendan Gill. Copyright 1926, 1928 and renewed 1954, © 1956 by Dorothy Parker. Reprinted with the permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
- Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker (Penguin Books, 2006)
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