Archy and Mehitabel

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I have read several works by Don Marquis and find them charming, irreverent, and very relevant to today's world. He has been long forgotten which is a terrible shame. First published in 1927, it is a treasure of wit and pokes fun at nearly everything. I highly recommend it, especially as a gift to stuffed shirts, preachers, and high society.

Don Marquis created archy the cockroach, who calls himself a vers libre poet, and his friend mehitabel, the fertile alleycat, in the 1920s and '30s, when the economic situation was as grim as ours is now. The short archy essays ran for years in a major big-city newspaper (I forget which one...Chicago, I believe), and were beloved for their subtle humor and sharp satire. Because he's a cockroach, at home alone in the nighttime newspaper office, archy has typewriters at his disposal, but no way to type, other than hurling himself head down upon each key. Thus, his poetry has no punctuation and no capital letters, but it is grand poetry nonetheless.
As a longtime fan of fine humor, I regard this small book, and its sequels, as valuable gems. They make superb gifts for anyone with a philosophical bent and a sense of humor.

the best and funniest of the 3 archie and mehitabel books offered period how could you not love a book written by a cockroach on a typewriter by slamming his head on the keys one at a time and skipping punctuation and capitalization of letters because comma well comma archie is a cockroach with a not so big reach and only one head to slam keys with period what would you leave out if you were in his same situation question mark
much is still relevent today comma especially the references to the scopes monkey trial period
and mehitabel comma why comma the song of mehitabel is simply one of the funniest poems ever written period garrison keiller lists it in his book good poems period

A classic book from an author who thoiught outside the box - you'll love it.