When I took a poetry class in high school, one of the poems we read was "The Lesson of the Moth" by Don Marquis. Well, we humans claim it was written by Don Marquis. Don himself claimed he had a pet cockroach, Archy, who wrote free-verse poetry by jumping up and down on the keys of a typewriter.
Today, on a whim, I googled Archy's poetry. Here are two poems I found particularly interesting. They were written around the 20's (not entirely sure), but they could have been written yesterday:
the big bad wolf
what the ants are saying
And here's the webpage on Don Marquis.
Thoughts?
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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