Bric-A-Brac Poem by Dorothy Parker

Bric-A-Brac

Rating: 2.8


Little things that no one needs --
Little things to joke about --
Little landscapes, done in beads.
Little morals, woven out,
Little wreaths of gilded grass,
Little brigs of whittled oak
Bottled painfully in glass;
These are made by lonely folk.

Lonely folk have lines of days
Long and faltering and thin;
Therefore -- little wax bouquets,
Prayers cut upon a pin,
Little maps of pinkish lands,
Little charts of curly seas,
Little plats of linen strands,
Little verses, such as these.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
John Michener 06 September 2008

Parker was a humorist but much of her poetry such as this one is sad and lonely.

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Dorothy Parker

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Long Branch / New Jersey
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