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DUCK CHICANERY AND THE HEY NOW HOUSE OF ONGOING ALTOGETHER PAIN

Duck Chicanery and the hey now house of ongoing altogether pain
a parable,no a paranoid,no a pair of anything you want
can even be sung in a meteor shower
and now ladies,gents
Act One of your favorite vice
president/precedent
Duck Chicanery
and the hey now house of ongoing altogether pain


the theater lights dim.Iraq kids come in tossing pretzels to the
audience.They begin to sing the Duck Chicanery Hoedown Two Step
Duck Duck out of luck
Pot Schmuck contrary muck
we be the five blind boys of Bagdhad
gotta get hip, gotta get bad
eat a pretzel,climb a wall
got your new anti-terror would be Lucille Ball
Duck Duck sometime lost
what we sing,what we cost

The Iraq kids exit.Lights go up on stage.We see Duck Chicanery in the
tub being scrubbed by Whoosh,the president

Whoosh:Yeah yeah uh huh uh huh whoa whoa yeah yeah
Duck:Elucidate,Forge
Whoosh:I,Forge Whoosh,freedom fighter
Duck:Exactly.Muscles,Condition,Fever,Verve
Whoosh:Whaddya mean,fever,I got no fever
Duck:Metaphor,Forge,go to war,don't leave my table poor
Whoosh:Oil Oil who done ride the oil
Duck:Meander,palaver,plunder,toil
Whoosh:Sad Dumb, he a goner
Duck:Kiss my Jehovah's Witness,daddy
Whoosh:I be the new sheriff in town
Duck:All good lovers finally come to ground
Whoosh:Yeah yeah uh huh uh huh whoa whoa yeah yeah
Duck:Kiss me a big one,Forge
Whoosh:Couldn't a done it without you,honey

Lights go out on stage.Lights come up on aisle.We see a whole lotta
angry folks storming from the lobby down toward the stage

folks:en masse....We got our votes stolen in Florida

(mechanical voice from off stage)
Celeb Whoosh loves you baby

folks:en masse...What we gonna do about it.What we gonna do

mechanical voice from farther off stage:
Celeb Whoosh loves you twice as much baby

the angry folks suddenly become dust

lights go up on stage

we see Duck Chicanery in a vat of oil.He is chanting

nine tana leaves for immortality
nine tana leaves for immortality
nine nine nine tana leaves
come on baby
let's go to Bagdad where the tana leaves dance
nine tana leaves for immortality
nine tana leaves for immortality

he dives into the oil and begins to sing

(end of Scene One.)

                                                 ---Scott Wannberg

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