In April, in April,
My one love came along,
And I ran the slope of my high hill
To follow a thread of song.

His eyes were hard as porphyry
With looking on cruel lands;
His voice went slipping over me
Like terrible silver hands.

Together we trod the secret lane
And walked the muttering town.
I wore my heart like a wet, red stain
On the breast of a velvet gown.

In April, in April,
My love went whistling by,
And I stumbled here to my high hill
Along the way of a lie.

(el poema es de Dorothy Parker, el dibujo de Jennifer Horn)

I am not sick, I am not well.
My quondam dreams are shot to hell.
My soul is crushed, my spirit sore;
I do not like me any more.
I cavil, quarrel, grumble, grouse.
I ponder on the narrow house.
I shudder at the thought of men….
I’m due to fall in love again.

(lo escribió Dorothy Parker, lo pinta Farel Dalrymple)

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

(el poema es de Dorothy Parker, el dibujo de Phil Hale)

If I had a shiny gun,
I could have a world of fun
Speeding bullets through the brains
Of the folk who give me pains;

Or had I some poison gas,
I could make the moments pass
Bumping off a number of
People whom I do not love.

But I have no lethal weapon -
Thus does fate our pleasure step on!
So they still are quick and well
Who should be, by rights in hell.

(el poema es de Dorothy Parker, el dibujo de contraomnes)

My love runs by like a day in June,
And he makes no friends of sorrows.
He’ll tread his galloping rigadoon
In the pathway of the morrows.
He’ll live his days where the sunbeams start,
Nor could storm or wind uproot him.
My own dear love, he is all my heart, —
And I wish somebody’d shoot him.

(Mindy Lee y Dorothy Parker, gran combinación)

My love, he’s mad, and my love, he’s fleet,
And a wild young wood-thing bore him!
The ways are fair to his roaming feet,
And the skies are sunlit for him.
As sharply sweet to my heart he seems
As the fragrance of acacia.
My own dear love, he is all my dreams, —
And I wish he were in Asia.

(de nuevo Mindy Lee y de nuevo Dorothy Parker)

My own dear love, he is strong and bold
And he cares not what comes after.
His words ring sweet as a chime of gold,
And his eyes are lit with laughter.
He is jubilant as a flag unfurled —
Oh, a girl, she’d not forget him.
My own dear love, he is all my world, —
And I wish I’d never met him.

(el dibujo es de Mindy Lee, el poema de Dorothy Parker)

In May my heart was breaking-
Oh, wide the wound, and deep!
And bitter it beat at waking,
And sore it split in sleep.

And when it came November,
I sought my heart, and sighed,
“Poor thing, do you remember?”
“What heart was that?” it cried.

(los pinta Travis Charest. El poema se llama Autumn Valentine y lo escribió Dorothy Parker)

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.

(los pinta V del Rey, el poema es de Dorothy Parker)

Hoy me he acordado un par de veces de Dorothy Parker y no tengo aquí los cuentos completos. Busco Una dama neoyorquina y tampoco parece. A ver si hay más suerte con La soledad de las parejas. Jo. Mal.

(esto lo pinta Jami Waggoner y, en realidad, es Jennifer Jason Leigh en La señora Parker y el círculo vicioso, película que estaría muy bien que alguien me grabara. Por favor, que alguien me la grabe)