Writing
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.
Résumé by Dorothy Parker
BOOKS ON SHELF LIST:
Forced Entries, The Basketball Diaries, and
Fear of Dreaming by Jim Carroll; Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson; Complete Poems, Dorothy Parker;
Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran; Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton; Plutonian Ode: Poems 1977-1980 by Allen Ginsberg
