DOROTHY PARKER RE-DO
Just for fun, I hijacked a favorite poem. The original is below.
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I’ve Got This
In youth, it was a way I had
To do my best to please;
And change, with every diet and fad,
to suit its theories.
But now I know the things I know,
And look the way I look;
I do whatever (and whomever!) I choose,
And speak my truth you took.
Nevermore your line I toe,
My desires are my cue;
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you! (and the patriarchy you rode in on!)
Dorothy Parker
My apologies to the witty and gloriously caustic Ms. Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967. The reliable wisecracker was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City, and a literary hero of my youth.
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Originally published in her 1926 collection of poetry, Enough Rope.
Indian Summer
In youth, it was a way I had
To do my best to please,
And change, with every passing lad,
To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know,
And do the things I do;
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you!
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