Crash Course Reading Series

Crash Course is an ongoing reading series. Each month, a different member picks a theme / topic / form / image for the group, who all make work based on / inspired by / directed through this central focus. We come together at the end of each month for a reading.

Work in progress. Forced exposure. Community. Sublimation.

Bedroom Poems

Dorothy Parker

Heres a little Dorothy Parker bedroom-related poem to warm it up!

Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom

Dorothy Parker

Daily dawns another day;
I must up, to make my way.
Though I dress and drink and eat,
Move my fingers and my feet,
Learn a little, here and there,
Weep and laugh and sweat and swear,
Hear a song, or watch a stage,
Leave some words upon a page,
Claim a foe, or hail a friend -
Bed awaits me at the end.

Though I go in pride and strength,
I’ll come back to bed at length.
Though I walk in blinded woe,
Back to bed I’m bound to go.
High my heart, or bowed my head,
All my days but lead to bed.
Up, and out, and on; and then
Ever back to bed again,
Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall -
I’m a fool to rise at all!

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