On Dec 16, 8:46*pm, DaveS wrote:
Perhaps the best poem ever written by a cochroach

"mehitabel dances with boreas" by Don Marquis4 min - Dec 7, 2008 -
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from Archy and Mehitabel. In a previous incarnation archy was not a
cochroach but a vers libre poet and mehitabel was cleopatra ...
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Dave

Archy and Mehitabel......now THERE'S a dynamic duo you don't run into
much these days!

Archy may have been the first of his type to learn to type (a not
inconsiderable feat back in the days when Underwood and Rmington ruled
the roost!), but Mehitabel was obviously a great deal more fit
(darwinianly speaking), as is obvious from the fact that her spawn
litter Usenet.

giles