Don Marquis's Artistic Creed

Hi, Everyone.

Here it is, the poem I promised you yesterday. It’s light, but legitimate. And it’s a major part of my own artistic creed.


archy confesses
by Don Marquis

coarse
jocosity
catches the crowd
shakespeare
and I
are often
low browed

the fish wife
curse
and the laugh
of the horse
shakespeare
and I
are frequently
coarse

aesthetic
excuses
in bill s behalf
are adduced
to refine
big bill s
coarse laugh

but bill
he would chuckle
to hear such guff
he pulled
rough stuff
and he liked
rough stuff

hoping you
are the same
archy


And this time, mirabile dictu (which is Latin for “miraculous to relate”), I will let the poem stand on it own, without any exposition from me.

All best,
Michael