Cheerio My Deario

Cheerio My Deario is a favorite poem of mine that I first encountered in high school days, dates better left untold. It remains a favorite, " in spite of hell and transmigration". I'm putting it up here so I have a reference that I don't have to constantly look up. Enjoy. Don Marquis, 1878 - 1937 Cheerio My Deario (By ARCHY THE COCKROACH) well boss i met mehitabel the cat trying to dig a frozen lamb chop out of a snow drift the other day a heluva comedown that is for me archy she says a few brief centuries ago one of old king tut ankh amens favorite queens and today the village scavenger butwotthehell archy wotthehell its cheerio my deario that pulls a lady through see here mehitabel i said i thought you told me that it was cleopatra you used to be before you transmigrated into the carcase of a cat where do you get this tut ankh amen stuff question mark i was several ladies my little insect says she being cleopatra was only an incident in my career and i was always...