[New-Poetry] Calling Dr. Giggles

[TheOldMole]

I can see that. I also find more than insignificant echoes of Ogden Nash 
in Russell Edson.

James Cervantes wrote:
> 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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>>>       
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>> Tad Richards
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