Sunset Gun/On Being a Woman

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Sunset Gun (1928)
by Dorothy Parker
On Being a Woman
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On Being a Woman


WHY is it, when I am in Romeme,
I’d give an eye to be at home,
But when on native earth I be,
My soul is sick for Italy?

And why with you, my love, my lord,
Am I spectacularly bored,
Yet do you up and leave me—then
I scream to have you back again?