Another poem by free-lance writer Dorothy Parker, 29, appears in the Saturday Evening Post:
Saturday Evening Post, March 3
“Song of the Wilderness”
By Dorothy Parker
We’ll go out to the open spaces,
Break the web of the morning mist,
Feel the wind on our upflung faces.
[This, of course, is if you insist.]
We’ll go out in the golden season,
Brave-eyed, gaze at the sun o’erhead.
[Can’t you listen, my love, to reason?
Don’t you know that my nose gets red?]
Where the water falls, always louder,
Deep we’ll dive, in the chuckling foam.
[I’ll go big without rouge and powder!
Why on earth don’t you leave me home?]
We’ll go out where the winds go playing,
Roam the ways of the brilliant West.
[I was never designed for straying;
In a taxi I’m at my best.]
Minds blown clean of the thoughts that rankle,
Far we’ll stray where the grasses swirl.
[I’ll be certain to turn my ankle;
Can’t you dig up another girl?]
We’ll go out where the light comes falling—
Bars of amber and rose and green.
[Go, my love, if the West is calling!
Leave me home with a magazine.]
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This summer I will be talking about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University.
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