Emily Dickinson Dining Out: A Cartoon

6 Comments

1. logicbutton +26 March 2, 2015 4:42 pm

   Raw eggs with grenadine, coming right up!

2. SallyRides100Tampons +61 March 2, 2015 4:45 pm

   She really struggled with getting into clubs too. The bouncer would ask for her name, she’d say she was a nobody, then have the gall to imply the bouncer was nobody too…

   This feels like a Dad Joke.

   1. aquamarinaveen +5 March 2, 2015 9:11 pm

      she never got any messages on okcupid either

3. crafty_bitch March 2, 2015 4:45 pm

   She really struggled with getting into clubs too. The bouncer would ask for her name, she'd say she was a nobody, then have the gall to imply the bouncer was nobody too…

   This feels like a Dad Joke.

4. dakimel +7 March 2, 2015 5:27 pm

   You were right. I did want to click.

   (Hungry for metaphor now.)

5. adriftinchina +18 March 3, 2015 2:07 am

   A poem for you all:
   Emily Dickinson’s To-Do List, by Andrea Carlisle

   Monday
   Figure out what to wear—white dress?
   Put hair in bun
   Bake gingerbread for Sue
   Peer out window at passersby
   Write poem
   Hide poem

   Tuesday
   White dress? Off-white dress?
   Feed cats
   Chat with Lavinia
   Work in garden
   Letter to T.W.H.

   Wednesday
   White dress or what?
   Eavesdrop on visitors from behind door
   Write poem
   Hide poem

   Thursday
   Try on new white dress
   Gardening—watch out for narrow fellows in grass!
   Gingerbread, cakes, treats
   Poems: Write and hide them

   Friday
   Embroider sash for white dress
   Write poetry
   Water flowers on windowsill
   Hide everything