“It costs me never a stab nor squirm

To tread by chance upon a worm.

"Aha, my little dear," I say,

"Your clan will pay me back some day."”

— Dorothy Parker

First printed in New Yorker, (9 April 1927) p. 31
Sunset Gun (1927)

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American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967

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“It costs me never a stab nor squirm

To tread by chance upon a worm.

"Aha, my little dear," I say,

"Your clan will pay me back some day."”