Modern Poetry Edition #63

Modern Poetry Edition #63 {Doo-Doo-Doo-De-Doo-Zungguh}

How would you like a dog-doo snow-cone? Free for every non-voter in the MP.
Apologies to Traci and any other females unfairly lumped in with slackers at whom I
aimed my earlier rant.

Maybe DooDoo wasn't *inspiring* enough a topic for youse. Maybe the selections
just weren't that good. Nah, can't be it.

"He took a dog-doo sno-cone
An' stuffed it in my right eye
He took a dog-doo sno-cone
An' stuffed it in my other eye"

That's what'll be in your MP next time if y'all don't start actin' right.
Anyway, enough suspense: CCR was recommended by 3/5 dentists,
so they are the winners. You Go Creedence! You know, MP Edition
#63 sure lends credence to the theory that MP can improve your
life. {Snort!}

Laters,
--Sean

Modern Poetry Edition #63 {Doo-Doo-Doo-De-Doo-Zungguh}
[3/30/07]
Doo Wah Diddy by Manfred Mann
Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing) by Zapp & Roger
**(Doo doo doo) Lookin' Out My Back Door by Creedence Clearwater Revival
De Doo Doo Doo, De Da Da Da by The Police
Zungguzungguguzungguzeng by Yellowman

**Winner of MPulitzer

Just PITIFUL! A whole month of Modern Poetry and only 4 votes! Horrible -- Bill Walton-Horrible, in fact!

What's up with that? And NO votes by women! I mean we really have our first serious woman candidate for president and the women ain't votin'. Just ain't right. You heard me, NO votes by women (or even girls). How much more lame could the female voting have been? Really? "None. None more lame. The voting could not have been any more lame."

Susan B. Anthony called. You sicken her.

Fly Guy (Huggie Bear from S&H) also called with a poem for the ladies. He's helping me get the female vote out by reprising and revising his award-winning rendition of "My B!tch Better Have My Money." It's from 1988's "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka," a fabulous film you simply must see a dozen times. Fly guy's rendition in the movie helps him win the title Pimp Of The Year, but I digress. Come on, ladies listen up.

"My b!tches better have my votes
Though rain sleet or snow.
My 'hos better make they chooices.
Not half, not some, but all my ballots.
Because if them don't, I'm gonna put my foot dead in they's ass."

'
ca Yellowman come fe mash dem again, Lord!
Vote, dammit!.!

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Doo what you doo when you did what you diddy!

It's time again for some MP.

You ready? No, not a Member of Parliament
(or even of Parliament Funkadelic) and
not the Military Police either. And also
not a Monthly Payment. So that just leaves
the Modern Poetry, and as so often is happening
of late, it is another uninspired edition.

Guest Editor anyone? Anyone? I will not
hesitate to call up the MP-reserves against their
will if needed to protect the interests of the
modern in their fight for poetry. So, it's a goofy-
phrased edition, "Doo" is good. "Doo Doo" is also
good. And the phonetical delight of "Zoong-gooo"
is mighty welcome.

Think of Bill Murray in Stripes with
the first one. Think voice-box-rock-funk-poetry on
the second one. You are on your own with CCR --
I didn't realize how much psychotropically active
substances them boys experimented with back in the
day. Ah the Police. Five-O rollin' with poetry
even when "words are hard to find." And supercool
Yellowman:

five plus five, it equal to ten.
if yuh have a goat, yuh put dem in a pen.

Oh, it rhymes, baby! No, no really! Guest Editor
anyone? Call me. Vote, yo.

--Sean

Doo Wah Diddy by Manfred Mann
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There she was just a-walking down the street
singing doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo
snapping her fingers and shuffling her feet
singing doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo

She looked good (looked good) she looked fine (looked fine)
she looked good she looked fine and I nearly lost my mind

Before I knew it she was walking next to me
singing doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo
Wah holding my hand just as natural as can be
singing doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo

We walked on (walked on) to my door (to my door)
we walked on to my door then we kissed a little more
I knew we was falling in love yes I did
and so I told her all the things I'd been dreaming of

Now we're together nearly every single day
singing doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo
oh we're so happy and that's how we're gonna stay
singing doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo

Well I'm hers (I'm hers) she's mine (she's mine)
I'm hers she's mine weddings bells are gonna chime
I knew we was falling in love yes I did
and so I told her all the things I'd been dreaming of

Now we're together nearly every single day
singing doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo
Mann oh we're so happy and that's how we're gonna stay
Doo singing doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo

Well I'm hers (I'm hers) she's mine (she's mine)
Wah I'm hers she's mine wedding bells are gonna chime
Doo wah diddy diddy dum dee dee doo (well sing it to me)
doo wah diddy diddy dum dee dee doo (oh oh yea)
doo wah diddy diddy dum dee dee doo

Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing) by Zapp & Roger
=======================================================================
Ditty Dum dum dum dum dum
Bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp
Bomp-bomp-bomp-de-oop
Bomp-bomp-bomp-de-oop

Girl, I wanna, wanna blow my thing Ooh...ooh...ooh...
Oh, oh, oh, wanna blow my thing Ooh...ooh...ooh...
Oh, oh, oh, wanna blow my thing Ooh...ooh...ooh...

Do your thing Just do your thing
Do your thing Just do your thing
Just do your thing Do your thing

Said I wanna blow (Doo wa) Just let me blow (Doo wa ditty)
Blow my thing, baby Blow my thing (Doo wa ditty)

Just do your thing Do your thing
Just do your thing Just do your thing
Just do your thing Just do your thing
Just do your thing

Ooh... Let me blow my thing
Ooh... Wanna blow my thing, baby
Shoo... Now dig my funky thing

Boom Bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp
Bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp Bomp-bomp-bomp-de-oop
Dip-dip-dip-dip-doo Bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp
Bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp Bomp-bomp-bomp-de-oop
Dip-dip-dip-dip-doo

Said I wanna blow (Doo wa) Just let me blow (Doo wa ditty)
Blow my thing, baby Blow my thing (Doo wa ditty)

(Doo doo doo) Lookin' Out My Back Door by Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy
Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch
Imagination sets in, pretty soon I'm singin'
Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door

There's a giant doing cartwheels, a statue wearin' high heels
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn
A dinosaur Victrola list'ning to Buck Owens
Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door

Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band
Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon
Wond'rous apparition provided by magician
Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door

Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band
Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon
Bother me tomorrow, today I'll buy no sorrow
Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door

Forward troubles, Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn

Bother me tomorrow, today I'll buy no sorrow
Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door

De Doo Doo Doo, De Da Da Da by The Police
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Don't think me unkind
Words are hard to find
They're only cheques I've left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me

De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true

Poets priests and politicians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no-one's jamming their transmission
'Cause when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you

Zungguzungguguzungguzeng by Yellowman
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Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, Zungguzungguguzungguzeng

She if yuh have a paper, yuh must have a pen
and if yuh have a start, yuh must have a end
seh five plus five, it equal to ten
and if yuh have goat, yuh put dem in a pen
and if yuh have a rooster, yuh must have a hen, now.

Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, Zungguzungguguzungguzeng

Jump fe happiness and jump fe joy
yuh nuh fe call Yellowman nuh bwoy
Lady Ann a yuh so take fe toy
playgal all dem call him joy
yuh nuh fe call Yellowman nuh bwoy
yuh nuh fe call Junjo nuh bwoy
yuh nuh fe take I and I fe bwoy.

Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, watch it!
Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, catch it!
Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, 'ca.

Zero, zero, one, one, nine
'ca Yellowman make yuh feel so fine
me chat all me lyric, me chat dem in a rhyme
me nuh eat lime it full of a rhyme
'ca Yellowman him a commit nuh crime, 'ca.

Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, hey!

Ku Shung Peng, Ku Shu-shu-shung Peng, hey!
Ku Shung Peng, Ku Shu-shu-shung Peng.
Seh if yuh have a start, yuh must have a end
seh if yuh have a paper, yuh pass me the pen
but tell yuh Yellowman have too much girlfriend
'ca nuff a dem a talk bout me nuh have nuh girlfriend
yuh a idiot bwoy, me have a hundred and ten
seh all a dem, dem have yellow children all a dem,
dem have yellow children some live a Kingston and dung a Maypenn
nuff a dem a ask me how me have nuff girlfriend,
True arguments, I have nuff arguments, Lord!

Arguments, I have nuff arguments
me enter in the house of parliament
prime minister and his wife haffe keep silent
a true Yellowman a chat intelligent
dem put me in the court, the judge seh yuh innocent,
True arguments, I have nuff arguments, 'ca
Sandra should a be fe me girlfriend, hey!
Lady Ann should a be me girlfriend, make a

Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, hey!
Yuh nuh fe jump fe happy or joy
yuh nuh fe call Yellowman nuh bwoy
Nuh bother take Junjo fe toy
me bredda in law them call him U-roy.

Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, watch it! Zungguzungguguzungguzeng

Yuh leggo violence, yuh smoke ishence
yuh deal with violence, yuh go dung silence
but tell yuh Yellowman come fe tell dem again
yuh live a Kingston or yuh live a Maypenn seh if
yuh have a rooster, yuh must have a hen
and if yuh have a start, yuh must have a end
but watch Yellowman come fe rock dem again, Lord!

Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, watch it! Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, hey!

Jump fe happiness and jump fe joy
yuh nuh fe take Yellowman fe bwoy
yuh nuh fe take Yellowman fe toy.

Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, watch it! Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, hey!

Ku Shung Peng, Ku Shu-shu-shung Peng!
But tell yuh Yellow vibes it sound like FM
the other rest of vibes sound like AM
but tell yuh Yellowman come fe rock dem again
yuh could a live a Kingston, Mo' Bay or Maypenn, 'ca.

Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, hey! Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, hey!

Nuh fe call Yellowman nuh bwoy
yuh fe jump fe happiness and jump fe joy.

Zungguzungguguzungguzeng
'ca Yellowman have nuff girlfriend
'ca watch a man me come fe tell dem again
'ca Yellowman come fe mash dem again, Lord!