Today’s Poem: archy confesses
A cockroach announces his place among the greats
Last year, when Sally Thomas and I were working on a column for the New York Sun, I had occasion to write about one of the newspaper’s old columnists, Don Marquis (1878–1937). Author of the “Sun Dial” column, before moving to the Tribune, Marquis invented several characters to use in his…
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