It's Don Marquis' b'day today.

I've always loved Archy and Mehitabel poems.

THEY ARE THE MOST UNLIKELY OF FRIENDS: Archy is a cockroach with the soul of a poet, and Mehitabel is an alley cat with a celebrated past -- she claims she was Cleopatra in a previous life. Together, cockroach and cat are the foundation of one of the most engaging collections of light poetry to come out of the twentieth century.

DonMarquis.com :: Archy and Mehitabel

This one's my favorite: the lesson of the moth