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It would definitely be interesting to write a piece about the Algonquin Club, but I'm not going to do a tribute to Dotty here, because I already published a tribute, in the much more appropriate form of a poem, in my 2013 collection "The Word and the Temple" (you can find it in the collected poems, "Welcome To My World", by clicking here)....
oh, very well, here it is:
From
A Stretched Limo
It
is not my usual custom to write verses
To
a woman I am smitten with by love
God
spare me sentiment that just rehearses
The
chivalry of kissing on the glove
God
spare me saccharine gestures made of verbiage
And
platitudes passed off as profound wit
And
imitation Romeos by Burbage
And
sententious “Love Is” this or that bullshit
It
is not my usual custom to write verses
To
a woman I am smitten with by love
Most
likely all I’ll get back is her curses
Or
slapped for trying my chivalry on her glove
So
unless you’re an Italian or Frenchman
Whose
language offers love means to propose
Much
better send your lady, through some henchman,
A
copy of Dot Parker’s “Perfect Rose”
Or
even better take advice from Dotty
Remember
that it’s celluloid not silver screen
Forget
the verses they’ll just drive you potty
And
leave the roses in the limousine.
You can find the original Dorothy Parker "Perfect Rose" by clicking here.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer, born today in 1908. And I simply couldn't resist - the photo on the right is his, of her above,
© Magnum Photos
Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer, born today in 1928
Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer, born today in 1928
Battle of Bosworth, the one in which the king who didn't have a hunchback (that was Shakespeare's invention) didn't find himself without a horse (but nonetheless a great line for an actor). And wasn't it called Bosworth Field anyway? Today in 1485.
Michael Collins, founder of the Irish Republican Army, assassinated, today in 1922 - see my page on the Easter Uprising here. And shouldn't that name now be restored to its Eirish correctness, as Mícheál Ó Coileáin?
The battle of Stalingrad began, today in 1942
Michael Collins, founder of the Irish Republican Army, assassinated, today in 1922 - see my page on the Easter Uprising here. And shouldn't that name now be restored to its Eirish correctness, as Mícheál Ó Coileáin?
The battle of Stalingrad began, today in 1942
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