Summer Job Resume’
(after Dorothy Parker)
Home life bores you;
poverty’s bad.
Friends ignore you;
alone, you’re sad.
Theft’s not lawful;
the dog’s a jerk.
Soaps are awful;
you might as well work.
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A wonderful poem of the invitable.
love the perfect meter and rhyme 🧡
Love it!
So clever–I laughed out loud at “The dog’s a jerk.”
*raises martini glass atcha*