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Dorthy Parker The Life, Locution, and Legend of Dorothy Parker “Razors pain you; rivers are damp. Acid stains you; drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; nooses give. Gas smells awful; you might as well live” (“Suicide” 2). This is often considered the most famous poem of Dorothy Parker among her over 400 poems that she composed during her lifetime. What does this say about an author who thinks and feels this way, who expresses her every thought in her poetry' Words were nearly her whole life and she expressed her ideas through these words. Since she sold her first poem at the age of twenty-one, she has been influencing minds with her ideas and thoughts. Dorothy Parker led a very interesting life with her poetry and writings being a major entity, pouring her heart and soul, her thoughts and dreams into her writing therefore being a strong influence on American literature. Parker was born to J. Henry and Eliza Rothschild on August 22, 1893 in West End, New Jersey. She didn’t have a very happy childhood for her mother died when she was very young and she endured a poor relationship with her father and stepmother. Writing was her passion parker, love, poetry, american, life, one, heart, dorothy, death, writer, women, very, poem, literature, literary, davidson, being, writings, writing, wit, way, table, spoke, since, over, modern, irony, influence, indeed, described, been, author, algonquin, after