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Apologizing to Dorothy for reading an awful opinion book about her 😅👀♥️

https://www.etsy.com/shop/OldBookSource

I buy from this shop often 😵‍💫😝😅
HOWEVER the prices are fantastic and books are always in really good condition ! FYI

Pictured my latest haul

🤓#historic #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

Inventory:

Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

#champagne #QuotsyAug20

#poetrymatters #lady @LazyDays

#PoetryMatters #Starlight

#PoetryMatters #Young

Yesterday was Dorothy Parker's birthday. So here's to her and her famous acerbic wit! 🍸🥂🥃
No #connection to today's #poetrymatters prompt. My apologies @LazyDays 🙂

Sing it, sister. ❤️

Once, when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my #brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.

Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.

I haven't read any Dorothy Parker yet, but the more quotes I see, the more I realize I really want to read her work. #QuotsyJan18

I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.

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.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

#litsypoetry365
I like the "why the hell not" attitude of this poem. It encompasses the "better to love and lost, than to never have loved at all" idea.

I haven't been keeping up with the picture a day this month mostly because I haven't had the items for photographing and posting. I do have a few for today's #poetry #seasonsreadings