Book Review: The Annotated Archy And Mehitabel by Don Marquis - Page 2

you see boss they were a lot more skeptical back then than people are today so they had a hard time believing it was a cockroach typing those columns every other day or so in the same plucky manner you see me doing here for you now

you dont believe me boss well hell all you have to do is check out your local bookseller for one of them penguin classic books theyve just put out a whole new version of archys work under the pen name of don marquis of course cause like you some people have ahard time believing that a cockroach can write anything

even in these supposed enlightened times a cockroach is treated like something that needs to be crunched under the heel do you know how many poetic souls are being scraped off soles every day

I digress and Im sorry boss but it makes my blood boil to think of all those souls who will have to transmigrate again to another body maybe not even as evolved as a cockroach
the book the book alright alright the book its called the - help me out somebody boss do the keys for html or we'll never hear the end of it the annotated archy and mehitabel you lazy so and so you couldnt stretch yourself to consider putting a higher case letter on either dear old archy or poor old mehitabel

you know there was never a finer feline thats lived according to what archy wrote for his boss then mahitabel she used to say that she was the reincarnation of cleopatra which was quite a funny but archy was a gentleman and let her have her vanities because she was his friend in an aside id also say that archy was probably just a little more then a  little in love with mehitabel

well if you think people have a problem with same sex spousal things today cross species would have just been too much for the likes of the world back then  even me liberal free spirited cockroach that I am would be hard pressed not to be a little upset by that idea.

but I think archy knew it were a hopeless cause and he wasnt one for an overt amount of brooding

well he must have done some sort of brooding on occasion because he did commit suicide to become the cockroach

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