From ‘Euw!’ to awe
How do cockroaches feel about CJP fuss? In 1916, columnist Don Marquis created ‘archy’ the cockroach. A free-verse poet in its past life, it clambered on the newspaper’s typewriter at night to write about surviving New York with mehitabel, an alley cat who fancied herself to be Cleopatra reincarnated. He couldn’t master the shift key,…