One of Parker's most famous poems, based on her experience in attempting suicide the fist time by slitting her wrists in 1923

1. Juão Maya presents

2. RÉSUMÉ
A poem by Dorothy Parker

3. NOTES ON “RÉSUMÉ”
This little eight-line poem is one of Parker’s most famous, based
on her experience in attempting suicide the first time by slitting
her wrists in 1923.

4. The last line – “You might as well live” – is exactly what her friend
Robert Benchley said to her at the time. It serves as the punch
line or the reversal “point” of the classical epigram, with a switch
to a resigned or unconcerned tone of voice contrasting with the
methodical catalog of suicide attempts.

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The theme of “Résumé” is death and suicide and the poem is fairly
obvious in being a laundry list of suicide methods.
But the theme could also be life, for it is too much hassle to cause
death -- and Parker says in her poem that trying to commit suicide
is harder than living.

6. RÉSUMÉ

7. Razors pain you;

8. Rivers are damp;

9. Acids stain you;

10. And drugs cause cramp.

11. Guns aren’t lawful;

12. Nooses give;

13. Gas smells awful;

14. You might as well live.
MUSIC
“Aria” – Goldberg Variations
J. S. Bach
Glenn Gould, piano
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