The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel

The poems arrive in lower case, every one of them, because a cockroach cannot hold down the shift key and strike a letter at the same moment. Archy, a free verse poet reincarnated into the body of an insect, spends his nights in a newspaper office hurling himself head first at the keys of the boss's typewriter, one letter per dive, and leaves the morning's verse in the roller.