{"product_id":"the-annotated-archy-and-mehitabel-isbn-9780143039754","title":"The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenerations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis, who was frequently compared to Mark Twain. These free-verse poems, which first appeared in Marquis's New York newspaper columns, revolve around the escapades of Archy, the philosophical cockroach who was once a poet, and Mehitabel, a streetwise alley cat who was once Cleopatra. Reincarnated as the lowest creatures on the social scale, they prowl the rowdy streets of New York City in between the world wars. The antics of these two immortal characters are now made available for the first time in their original order of publication in this unique, comprehensive collection, which features many poems never before reprinted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. \u003c\/p\u003eThe Annotated Archy and MehitabelIntroduction by Michael Sims\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Annotated Archy and Mehitabel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1916\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpression Is the Need\u003cbr\u003eJust Cockroaches\u003cbr\u003eSomething to Say\u003cbr\u003eSimplified Spelling\u003cbr\u003eHell\u003cbr\u003eFreddy Is No More\u003cbr\u003eUp or Down the Scale\u003cbr\u003eRaise in Salary\u003cbr\u003eAn Easy Mark\u003cbr\u003eGrind Down the Laboring Man\u003cbr\u003eJust for This, You Go in Agate, Archy\u003cbr\u003eDesk All Cleaned Up\u003cbr\u003eCapitals\u003cbr\u003eWhy Not Commit Suicide\u003cbr\u003eWriting All By Itself\u003cbr\u003eWe Rushed Forward and Swatted\u003cbr\u003eMy Naked Soul\u003cbr\u003eOn My Recent Demise\u003cbr\u003eBallade of the Under Side\u003cbr\u003eAeroplane\u003cbr\u003eBack to the Starting Point\u003cbr\u003eLightning Bug\u003cbr\u003eThe Next Line\u003cbr\u003eBe Beautiful\u003cbr\u003eCleopatra\u003cbr\u003eThe Queens I Have Been\u003cbr\u003eUnpunctuated Gink\u003cbr\u003eButting These Keys with My Head\u003cbr\u003eDrunken Hornet\u003cbr\u003eCheer Up Cheer Up\u003cbr\u003eWhite Powder\u003cbr\u003eMy Ultimatum\u003cbr\u003eSwiss Cheese\u003cbr\u003eKatydid\u003cbr\u003eSuicide Club, Part 1\u003cbr\u003eSuicide Club, Part 2\u003cbr\u003eSuicide Club, Part 3\u003cbr\u003eSuicide Club, Part 4\u003cbr\u003eSuicide Club, Part 5\u003cbr\u003eKilling Off the Sparrows\u003cbr\u003eMy Last Name\u003cbr\u003eWhere Is Archy?\u003cbr\u003eArrest That Statue\u003cbr\u003eHappy Inspirations\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1917\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat Cockroach Glide\u003cbr\u003eArchy Gets His Statue Made\u003cbr\u003eStatue of Myself\u003cbr\u003eGoing to War of Just Going to Hell\u003cbr\u003eMore or Less Neutral\u003cbr\u003eBetween Him and His Masterpiece\u003cbr\u003eWar Times\u003cbr\u003eAgate for You, Archy, Just to Curb Your Pride\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of Mehitabel the Cat\u003cbr\u003eA Pampered Kitten\u003cbr\u003eMehitabel the Cat Has Struck\u003cbr\u003eIt Was Beer\u003cbr\u003eA Saucer Full of Beer\u003cbr\u003eThe Cat Is Sore at Me\u003cbr\u003eComma Boss Comma\u003cbr\u003eLawn\u003cbr\u003eWorkman Spare That Bathtub\u003cbr\u003eWashington D C\u003cbr\u003eArchy in Washington\u003cbr\u003eTo Help Win the War\u003cbr\u003eOut of the Cockroach Body\u003cbr\u003eA German Periscope\u003cbr\u003ePatience Worth\u003cbr\u003eBeware the Demon Rum\u003cbr\u003eSounds Like a Jolly Gang\u003cbr\u003eInterest in Science\u003cbr\u003eHe Cried into His Beer\u003cbr\u003ePrudence\u003cbr\u003eToo Romantic to Work\u003cbr\u003eI Knew a Ghost\u003cbr\u003eThat Ghost That Loafs\u003cbr\u003eSuperior\u003cbr\u003eSad Looking Ghost\u003cbr\u003eBore His Way Out\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1918\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary Slave No Longer\u003cbr\u003ePoetry Is\u003cbr\u003eWindow Box War Gardens\u003cbr\u003eThe Crippled Cockroach\u003cbr\u003eWe Suspect Archy\u003cbr\u003eCockroachism\u003cbr\u003eNamed after the Washington Arch\u003cbr\u003eAeroplane Mail\u003cbr\u003eAssisting at a Suicide\u003cbr\u003eNot a Fish\u003cbr\u003eAt the Zoo\u003cbr\u003eProhibition Rushes Toward Us\u003cbr\u003eIncome Tax Slacker\u003cbr\u003eThe Raiding Habit\u003cbr\u003eA Loyal Allied Cootie\u003cbr\u003eDialogue among the Plants\u003cbr\u003eYe Instead of The\u003cbr\u003eOne Thing That Makes Crickets So Melancholy\u003cbr\u003eSphinx\u003cbr\u003eReports of My Exit\u003cbr\u003eGlorious Footfulness\u003cbr\u003eFalling Upwards\u003cbr\u003eHeadgear\u003cbr\u003eSmile When You Ride on the Subway\u003cbr\u003eA Genuine Quip\u003cbr\u003eTobacco Fund\u003cbr\u003eThe Advice of Your Little Friend\u003cbr\u003eJane Gad Fly\u003cbr\u003eThe Influenza\u003cbr\u003eA Tall Story\u003cbr\u003eChief Janitor\u003cbr\u003eI Saw Archy\u003cbr\u003ePeace Conference\u003cbr\u003eMore and More at Sea\u003cbr\u003ePoet Overboard\u003cbr\u003eFreedom of the Seas\u003cbr\u003eTwo Old Men\u003cbr\u003ePassing the Bock\u003cbr\u003eThe Former Kaiser\u003cbr\u003eAbdication Underneath the Bough\u003cbr\u003eWho Pays for All This\u003cbr\u003eThe Former Czar\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1919\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the Tomb of Napoleon\u003cbr\u003ePreliminary Peace\u003cbr\u003eNo Water Bug\u003cbr\u003eSafer in America\u003cbr\u003eAn Interview with Mehitabel\u003cbr\u003eNo Beer No Work\u003cbr\u003eRoyal Blood and Anarchy\u003cbr\u003eI Left There Too Soon\u003cbr\u003eClassed with Fleas\u003cbr\u003eA Home among the Casks\u003cbr\u003eHelp I Can Give the Worried Housewife\u003cbr\u003eIn Spite of H Dash Double L\u003cbr\u003eGaloshes for Cockroaches\u003cbr\u003eA Poem in the Kipling Manner\u003cbr\u003ePut Me in the Movies\u003cbr\u003eThe Best Thing You Have Done Yet\u003cbr\u003eArchy Is Still on Strike\u003cbr\u003eGrin and Beer It\u003cbr\u003eThe Archy Strike\u003cbr\u003eCall Archy Back\u003cbr\u003eAn Injunction\u003cbr\u003eArchy Gets a 50 Per Cent Increase\u003cbr\u003eThank You for the Advice\u003cbr\u003eDarned Little Justice\u003cbr\u003eArchy Gets Restless Again\u003cbr\u003eA Plum Plan\u003cbr\u003eTrying to Ruin Me\u003cbr\u003eTo Settle the Controversy\u003cbr\u003eRheumatism\u003cbr\u003eThis Monster Man\u003cbr\u003eThe Cat Show\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1920\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchy Is Ill\u003cbr\u003eThe  Anti Cockroach Conspiracy\u003cbr\u003eA Threat\u003cbr\u003eThe Shimmie\u003cbr\u003eA Former Doughboy\u003cbr\u003ePretty Soft for You\u003cbr\u003eA Little Waterbug\u003cbr\u003eAn Archy Drive\u003cbr\u003eSentimental about Birds\u003cbr\u003eA Sad Time Dieting\u003cbr\u003eCrazy as a Bed Bug\u003cbr\u003eRandom Thoughts by Archy\u003cbr\u003eI Saw a Football Game\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1921\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo Privacy\u003cbr\u003eThis Lenin Person\u003cbr\u003eOrganizing the Insects\u003cbr\u003eThe Cockroach Its Life History\u003cbr\u003eMy Private Comet\u003cbr\u003eDodo Birds and Cubist Posters\u003cbr\u003eTo Become Grasshoppers\u003cbr\u003eKu Klux Klam\u003cbr\u003eO City of Angels\u003cbr\u003eArchy Turns Highbrow for a Minute\u003cbr\u003eKrew Krux Kranks\u003cbr\u003eCursed Fly Swatters\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1922\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Cheerful Oyster\u003cbr\u003eTalking to a Moth\u003cbr\u003eGround for Optimism\u003cbr\u003eWaiting for a Vacant Body\u003cbr\u003eInterviewed the Mummy\u003cbr\u003eArchy to the Radio Fans\u003cbr\u003eOnce Every Seventeen Years\u003cbr\u003eThe Truth about the Insects\u003cbr\u003eWarty Bliggens\u003cbr\u003eStrange Bedfellows\u003cbr\u003eMy Favorite Poem\u003cbr\u003eAlways the Lady\u003cbr\u003eArchy's Own Short Course in Entomology\u003cbr\u003eThe Patagonian Penguin\u003cbr\u003eBe Glad You're Not a Tomcat\u003cbr\u003eThe Most Luckless Creature\u003cbr\u003eLow Brow\u003cbr\u003eSong of Mehitabel\u003cbr\u003eForgets His Littleness\u003cbr\u003eBusiness Matters\u003cbr\u003eFairies\u003cbr\u003eI Knuckle Under\u003cbr\u003eThe Dactyl Droops\u003cbr\u003eInvestigating Her Morals\u003cbr\u003eSmall Talk\u003cbr\u003eShakespeare and I\u003cbr\u003eThank You for the Mittens\u003cbr\u003eArchy Is Excited\u003cbr\u003eThe Futility of Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003eDon Marquis (1878–1937) was a newspaper columnist, poet, novelist, dramatist, and popular author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Sims is the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eIn the Womb: Animals\u003c\/i\u003e (adapted from two National Geographic Channel documentaries); he is also the author of \u003ci\u003eApollo's Fire: A Journey through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day\u003c\/i\u003e, which NPR chose as one of the best science books of 2007; \u003ci\u003eAdam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and a \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Best Science Book; and \u003ci\u003eDarwin's Orchestra: An Almanac of Nature in 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