Selected Poems

don marquis'
archy and mehitabel (1916)

 

featuring

lucy mcmichael
temi rose
don brennan
elena sapora

archy and mehitabel

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

the coming of archy

archy interviews a pharaoh

the wail of archy

archy creates a situation

archy hears from mars

unjust

archy at the tomb of napoleon

the song of mehitabel

mehitabel was once cleopatra

mehitabel's extensive past

why mehitabel jumped

mehitabel has an adventure

mehitabel sees paris

cheerio my deariio

a spider and a fly

the hen and the oriole

ghosts

the lesson of the moth

the flattered lightning bug

the cockroach who had been to hell

the cheerful cricket

the dissipated hornet