archy was a
cockroach with the
soul of a
poet he fancied himself a
writer so he would
jump up and down on the keys of a
typewriter owned by
newspaper columnist
don marquis however due to archys
small size he could not handle
capitals or
punctuation his best
friend was a
cat named
mehitabel who was
cleopatra in a
past lifei always liked archy and
read all his stuff when i was a
kid part of his
appeal was the
fanciful imagery of a cockroach jumping all over a typewriter and holding
deep conversations with an
alley cat and part of it was the high
quality of the
writing and of course a cockroach can
get away with saying a lot of things that would get a human in
trouble