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Don Marquis

boss i saw a picture

of myself in a paper

the other day

writing on a typewriter

with some of my feet

i wish it was as easy

as that what i have to do

is dive at each key

on the machine

and bump it with my head

and sometimes it telescopes

my occiput into my

vertebrae and i have a

permanent callous

on my forehead

i am in fact becoming

a low brow think of it

me with all my learning

to become a low brow

hoping that you

will remain the same

i am as ever your

faithful little bug

archy

-Don Marquis (archy a low brow, from

(archy s life of mehitabel)

Donald Robert Perry Marquis. 1878 - 1937. American journalist and humorist, known for his columns The Sun Dial in the New York Sun and The Lantern in the New York Tribune. Among his best known humorous and satirical books are Archy and Mehitabel (1927) and several sequels, a satire on life in the 1920's in terms of a cockroach and a cat.