mehitabel finds a home
featuring
lucy mcmichael as mehitabel
temi rose as archy
elena sapora as the bohemian mistress
recorded january 30th, 2011 ~
at the ensemble studio theatre nyc
archy and mehitabel home
the text of this poem is unabridged,
but the recorded text may have been altered |
well now it
looks as if
mehitabel the cat
might be on the
way toward a
reform or if not
a reform at least
on the way towards
domestication of some
sort some young
artists who live in a
their
studio
in the greenwich
village section
of new york city
have taken pity
on her destitution
and have adopted
her this is the
life archy she says
i am living on
condensed milk and
synthetic gin hoopla
for the vie de boheme
exclamation point
there’s nothing bourgeois
about these people
that have taken
me in archy i
have been there
a week and have
not yet seen them
go to bed
except in the daytime
a party every night
and neither
the piano lid
nor the icebox lid
ever closed
kitty said my new
mistress to me
yesterday you are
welcome here so long
as you don t
raise a family
but the first
kitten that i hear
mewing on these
premises back to
the alley for you
it is a comfort to
know there are some
live ones left in
these melancholy days
and while the
humans are dancing
in the studio
i get some
of my
feline friends
and we sing
and dance on the
skylight to gehenna
with the bourgeois
bunch that locks
their ice boxes
archy when i lead my
gang into the
apartment at
four in the morning
there are no bolts
or bars anywhere
and not an
inhibition on the place
i feel little
archy that i have
come home to my own
kith and kin
again after
years of fruitless
wandering
archy |