Sunday, November 16, 2008

excerpts from 'certain maxims of archy'

(From 'archy and mehitabel'
by don marquis)

if you get gloomy just
take an hour off and sit
and think how
much better this world
is than hell
of course it won t cheer
you up much if
you expect to go there


prohibition makes you
want to cry
into your beer and
denies you the beer
to cry into



that stern and
rockbound coast felt
like an amateur
when it saw how grim
the puritans that
landed on it were

Comments : I liked these excerpts, especially the first and the last. The last reminded me of some serious kill-joys I know, and the first was just too tongue-in-cheek to leave out of this post.
- Zen

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