A favorite when I was little; a favorite now. (And far less of the political verse went over my head this time.)

Um, can we talk about how amazing and underrated this book is?

"mehitabel is a believer
in the pythagorean
theory of the transmigration
of the soul and she claims
that formerly her spirit
was incarnated in the body
of cleopatra
that was a long time ago
and one must not be
surprised if mehitabel
has forgotten some of her
more regal manners"