Poetry For Fun - Trulier Coolier (1978)

foreign [Music] I have the measles and the mumps a cash a rash and purple bumps my mouth is my throat is dry I'm going blind in my right eye my tonsils are as big as rocks I've counted 16 chicken pox and there's one more that's 17. and don't you think my face looks green my leg is cut my eyes are blue it might be instamatic flu cough and sneeze gasp and choke I'm sure that my left leg is broke my hip hurts when I move my chin belly buttons caving in my back is wrenched my ankle sprained my appendix pains each time it rains nose is cold my toes are numb I have a sliver in my thumb my neck is stiff my spine is weak I hardly whisper when I speak whisper my tongue is filling up my mouth I think my hair is falling out my elbows bent my spine ain't straight my temperature is 108. my brain is shrunk cannot hear there is a hole inside my ear I have a hangnail and my heart is what is that what's that you say you say today is Saturday goodbye I'm going out to play [Music] [Music] poem to mud [Music] poem to ooze padded and pies [Music] or coating your shoes poem to slews poem the crud [Music] fed by a leak or spread by a flood wherever whenever why ever it goes stirred by your finger or strain by your toes there is nothing sloppier slipperier floppier there's nothing slickier stickier thickier there's nothing quickier to make grown-ups sickier trulier coolier than wonderful mud [Music] the frogs and the serpents each had a football team and I heard their cheerleaders in my dream builds water builds water called the Frog builds water builds water CIS boom bog roll them off the log slug them in the song swamp bump my quash ifus the sibilant syllabub syllable and charybdis sumac asphidel how do you spell success with an SSS thank you 18 Luscious Scrumptious Flavors chocolate lime and Cherry coffee pumpkin fudge banana caramel cream and boysenberry rocky road and toasted almond butterscotch vanilla dip Butter Brickle Apple Ripple coconut and mocha chip Brandy Peach and lemon custard each scoop lovely smooth and round tallest ice cream cone in town lying there on the ground [Music] [Laughter] [Music] foreign for a hippopotamus sandwich a hippo sandwich is easy to make all you do is simply take one slice of bread one slice of cake some mayonnaise one onion ring one hippopotamus one piece of string a dash of pepper better to do it and now comes the problem biting into it [Music] [Applause] snickles and podes ribbles and Groats that's what I wish you a knocks the Groot a root in the stoot and a gok in the fall we saw two keep out of sight for fear that I might Glam your Gravely snaved don't show your face around in a place or you'll get one snack in the pave [Music] Hubert had a jar of glue from you the glue could not be parted at least could not be parted far for you was glued to Hubert's jar but that is where it all had started the glue upon the shoe of you attached him to the floor the glue on Hubert's gluey hand was fastened to the door while two of Hubert's relatives were glued against each other his mother I believe was one the other was his brother the dog and cat stood quite nearby they could not move from there the bird was glued securely into Hubert's mother's hair Hubert's father hurried home and loudly said to you from now on I would rather that you did not play with glue [Music] thank you [Music] remember foreign [Music] what did you do where did you go why weren't you back an hour ago how come your shirts ripped on the sleeve why are you wet when did you leave what scratched your face when did you eat where are your socks look at your feet how did you get paint in your hair where have you been don't kick the chair say something now I'll give you till 10. one two three four see if I ever come home again [Music]