The Red Dress / Rochia Rosie Comments

I like the photo better than the poem. The photo gives us the dress in is elegant style in a natural setting of shrubbery whose green parallels the red of the dress. The poem, however, debunks the very dream of elegance it set up. I don't know if Dorothy Parker is a latter-day Ecclesiastes railing against the vanity of possessions or a woman so soused with alcoholism she could find nothing of value in a world bursting with beauty. When she had to choose between alcohol and her writing career, she chose alcohol. Sic. The photo deserves its own poem.