La Cucaracha

Cooties!

Remember this game we used to play:


And this song we used to sing:

La Cucaracha, La Cucaracha!
Running up and down the wall!
La Cucaracha, La Cucaracha!
Me, I love you not at all!

And Archy the incredibly clever typing cockroach:



" . . . i would not consider
it honorable in me as a
righteous cockroach to crawl into a
near sighted man s soup . . . "

For a more serious view of the cockroach in poetry
and poems by Martin Niemöller and Muriel Rukeyser
see my new post:
"La Cucaracha"
on the
The Fortnightly Kitti Carriker
A fortnightly [every 14th & 28th]
literary blog of connection & coincidence; custom & ceremony

Echo

"Publishing a volume of verse
is like dropping a rose petal
down the Grand Canyon
and waiting for the echo."

-- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
American humorist and poet, best known for creating
the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel (of whom, more anon)

Above painting:
Horse's Skull with White Rose (1931)
by Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
American Artist