Have Poem Will Travel
Voice Card  -  Volume 32  -  Stuart Card Number 8  -  Sun, May 29, 1994 10:22 PM

This is a response to VC 31 Janine 1 ("Reserve a Set for Me!!")... Thank you, Janine. I'll happily reserve a set for you (and Paul and John, and anyone else who's interested) once the book comes out (See my earlier voice card response to Paul regarding the saga of the poems and their publisher). As for music, that's a great idea. Actually, one of the poems is a song, the "Z" poem: "My Ladybug Zum Zas." I can present text (see below). And, if Tio Juan can suggest a way to have the song come out on Archipelago, I can even sing it for you. (What would I have to do, John, send you a cassette, and you would do some wizardry to get the song on the computer?) Anyway, here's the poem or, er, song (expand the text field, please):

My Ladybug Zum-Zas My ladybug zum-zas My ladybug zum-zas My ladybug zum-zas to me We're zooming in the la We're zooming in the la We're zooming my zum-za and me In the zoo of the Czar By the Czar of the Zoo There's a zither that plays for me It sings zooming in the la It sings zooming in the la It sings zooming my zum-za and me For ladybug zum-zas My ladybug zum-zas My ladybug zum-zas by me For ladybug zum-zas My ladybug zum-zas My ladybug zum-zas by me When the Zephyrus blows Through his zephyr-like nose When the Zephyrus blows to me Then Zeus in his zeal From his zone in the sun Sings Zum-za my zip-zap-zue-zee! Where Ladybug zum-zas My ladybug zum-zas My ladybug zum-zas to me Where Ladybug zum-zas My ladybug zum-zas My ladybug zum-zas to me When the Zebras all zip And the Zebus all zap They sing eating plums in the trees From the zenith of the zodiac Sing zum-za my paddywack Sing zum-za my zip-zap-zue-zee! When my ladybug zum-zas My ladybug zum-zas My ladybug zum-zas to me We go zooming in the la We go zooming in the la We go zooming my zum-za and me We go zooming in the la We go zooming in the la We go zooming my zum-za and me