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Poet: Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Parker Art)
Poem: 3.
The False Friends
Volume: Enough Rope
Year: Published/Written in 1926
Poem of the Day:
Jan 28 2008
Comment 16 of 16, added on April 19th, 2006 at 8:11 PM.
I read this once and was smitten by it ever since.
Lovely.
Pam from Singapore
Comment 15 of 16, added on June 25th, 2005 at 9:15 AM.
This is one of my favorite DP poems. I remember my first broken heart and that it took me a lot longer than I thought to get over it (actually I'm still quite bitter about that..grr).
I think she's not talking about actual friends so much as general cliche's, like "time heals all wounds" etc. You feel betrayed when it turns out to be so much harder than you always thought and personally I felt like, damn it, someone should have warned me about love being so very shitty sometimes!
Jennie from Netherlands
Comment 14 of 16, added on May 30th, 2005 at 11:09 PM.
The fact that it took more than one month is just to show how naive and immature the speaker is. I don't believe it has anything to do with people underestimating your hurting.
Lauren from United States
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I read this once and was smitten by it ever since.
Lovely.
Pam from Singapore