[New-Poetry] Calling Dr. Giggles

[James Cervantes]

Hey, I'm an old archy and mehitabel fan - even had a cat named
mehitabel and a typewriter named archy, read the stories to our kids.
I hadn't kept up with the thread, but does anyone hear faint echoes of
Marquis in Berryman's Henry? (probably *just* linguistic)

- Jim

On 10/2/07, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:
> "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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