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To: HartleyMBaldwin

“”e e cummings””

Now I recall him from years ago but Archy - NO....


14 posted on 08/28/2025 9:38:52 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

Don Marquis was a long-ago columnist for the NY Sun. Archy was a poet reincarnated as a large cockroach, who could only write by climbing up onto a typewriter and hurling himself headfirst onto one key at a time, so capital letters were out of the question. Marquis started putting these poems into his columns in 1916, and eventually several books of them were published. Still fun to read.


18 posted on 08/28/2025 9:54:37 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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