Book Review: The Annotated Archy And Mehitabel by Don Marquis - Page 4

you know it seems like this don marquis fellow got quite famous off the back of my distant ancestor archy all cockroaches are related boss havent you noticed the similarity yet

sure he may have written a couple of plays and other books and a screenplay or two but who would have heard of him today if it werent for archy and mehitabel the book isnt called the annotated don marquis now is it

they even made an animated movie about the life of archy and mehitabel -
boss I really need your help this time be a pal - Shinebone Alley and you can't say they did that about old don marquis can you.

Well I guess theres no use complaining as thats usually a cockroaches lot even if they are remembered somebody else is taking the credit for their work but as mehitabel would have said to archy if he had complained to her about it
toujours gai archy always smiling toujours gai

Well that's where it ended, this epistle from my mysterious visitor in the night who felt the need to write about the Penguin Classic's release of The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis. I did some checking up and found that such a book does exist and it includes a really good biography of Don in the foreword by Michael Sims.

This collection is the first time all the poems are gathered together in the order they were first published in the New York Evening Sun as part of Don's column "The Sun Dial". It would appear that in spite of his cockroach bias my anonymous contributor knows his stuff. So from now on I'm going to be keeping a eye out for a slightly stooped cockroach around the house - one with the high forehead, the sign of an unusually large intellect, or of having your head beaten against a solid object repeatedly. I can only hope none of our cats come upon him while he's typing - there's not much room in a computer laptop's keyboard for a cockroach, no matter how small, to hide.

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