Original artwork, not a still
Razors pain you;
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
This opening begins a bleakly comic list of reasons against self-destruction. The full poem turns toward continuing to live; the isolated line is read with that closing turn in view.
Sources (1)
- Dorothy Parker: Enough Rope (1926)Résumé, opening line read in complete eight-line poemReference checked
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