[New-Poetry] Calling Dr. Giggles

[TheOldMole]

"archy interviews a pharaoh" was the very last one not to make the cut, 
and I still regret it. I may change my mind at the last minute. But I 
wanted to use something with mehitabel in it.

Richard Wilsnack wrote:
> I will sadly have to miss Tad Richards' presentation, but I hope that 
> it includes time
> for Don Marquis' "archy interviews a pharaoh,"  wherein archy 
> confronts a mummy
> with the realities of Prohibition pre-1932.
>
> The text can be found at
>
>     http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/76.html
>
> A key passage spoken by the mummy:
>
> oh by isis
> and by osiris
> says the princely raisin
> and by pish and phthush and phthah
> by the sacred book perembru
> and all the gods
> that rule from the upper
> cataract of the nile
> to the delta of the duodenum
> i am dry
> i am as dry
> as the next morning mouth
> of a dissipated desert
> as dry as the hoofs
> of the camels of timbuctoo
> little fussy face
> i am as dry as the heart
> of a sand storm
> at high noon in hell
> i have been lying here
> and there
> for four thousand years
> with silicon in my esophagus
> as gravel in my gizzard
> thinking
> thinking
> thinking
> of beer
>
>
> Richard W. Wilsnack
> rwilsnac at medicine.nodak.edu
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