When We Were Very SoreDorothy Parker was dismayed to learn one day that, in a bid to promote her latest book,
Enough Rope, her editor was planning to advertize her as "another A. A. Milne" (the author of such children's classics as Winnie the Pooh and When We Were Very Young for whom she had considerable contempt). By way of response, she composed a poem, aptly entitled "When We Were Very Sore":
Dotty had
Great Big
Visions of
Quietude.
Dotty saw an
Ad, and it
Left her
Flat.
Dotty had a
Great Big
Snifter of
Cyanide.
And that (said Dotty)
Is that.
Parker, Dorothy ["Dottie"] (1893-1967) American writer, critic, and wit; member of the famed Algonquin Round Table [noted for her many stories,
poems, and other works]
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