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I've decided to be creative. I don't know if anyone here has ever read the Archy poems by Don Marquis? They are a series of poems told from the perspective of a cockroach who supposedly wandered into Marquis' newspaper office one night and started churning out stuff on his typewriter. Anyway, this poem is an imitation of the Archy poems. I was reading a lot of Nietzsche at the time, so this is Archy's take on that philosopher. Oh, and by the way, the Methitabel mentioned in this poem is a cat in Marquis' office. Everyone still here? O.K. Here's the poem...

Archy Reads Nietzsche (After Don Marquis)
By Michael S. Walker

boss
ive been reading
this guy nietzche
that book on your
desk
phew
and mehitabel says
phew too
whats he got
against the
whole judeo-christian
thing anyway
sure
church is a bore
and id rather
spend Sundays
in a tette to tette
with stale bread
in a tavern somewhere
but this nietzche guy
seems to think its
like being a poet
trapped inside
a cockroaches body
well it aint
it just aint boss
and you can tell
him that for me
i happen to know
if you
happen to
see him boss
tell him
it aint so