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By Dorothy Parker
If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much, But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
- Source
- Enough Rope, 1926 · p. 91 (poem "Observation")
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- Internet Archive (scan of Enough Rope, New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926; copyright 1926)
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The whole of the poem "Observation," from Enough Rope (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926). The book says its verses were first printed in Life, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and The New York World. Published in the US in 1926, so in the public domain.