From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel Furr) Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.humor,rec.arts.poems,talk.politics.animals,alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.furry,alt.non.sequitur,talk.answers,rec.answers,alt.answers,news.answers Subject: alt.fan.lemurs: Frinkquently Asked Questions (Part 1 of 3, Lemur Poetry) Summary: This posting contains the Lemur Poetry archive. Date: 15 Feb 93 09:12:42 GMT Official USENET Alt.Fan.Lemurs Frinkquently Asked Questions Part 3 of 3 -- Lemur Poetry This posting contains the "Lemur Poetry" archive, sorted by author. ------------------------------ The Questions (1) What lemur poetry has Vance Kochenderfer written? (2) What lemur poetry has Aileen Cho written? (3) What lemur poetry has Greg Morrow written? (4) What lemur poetry has Nancy VonStein written? (5) What lemur poetry has Diana Senechal written? (6) What lemur poetry has "d." written? (7) What lemur poetry has Greg Bole written? (8) What lemur poetry has "The Amazing Immolating Man" written? (9) What lemur poetry has Rachel Perkins written? (10) What lemur poetry has Sean Barrett written? ------------------------------ The Answers (1) What lemur poetry has Vance Kochenderfer written? Vance, an engineering student at Virginia Tech, has written many lemur-oriented works of poetry, contained herein: Ode To A Lemur Lemur, Lemur, burning bright In the forests of the night Staring out with your huge eyes At the Madagascar skies Old World primate though you are I bet you could drive a car Better than most blondes I know They don't have foxlike muzzles, though Or any kind of tail to see But yours are long and bushy, gee I wish that I could be like you And live in the jungle canopy too Alas, I am an AOE* And Fortran, Fortran calls to me 'Twill make me rage, and make me curse So now I terminate my verse. * Vance is an undergraduate at Virginia Tech in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering (AOE)) springtime in antananarivo lemur fuzzy lemur warm fuzzy lemur warm big-eyed fuzzy lemur fuzzy fuzzy lemur lemur frink. The Prosimian Question Lemurs everywhere Out in the jungle, staring What do they look for? Lemurick No.1 There once was a lemur named Nigel Who met with a cow who's from Rigel They got bean burritos Proceeded to eat those And spent the next day taking Di-Gel. Reflections I stared into a lemur's eyes And wondered of what lay within Is he troubled by inner strife, by thoughts of good and sin? When lemurs talk (if they do talk) What is it they discuss? The jungle? Food? Philosophy? Or do they wonder about us? I looked-- I hoped for a reply To link man's past with his new plight He only gave what seemed a smile, And swung upon my ceiling light. Send comments/criticism to vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (Vance Kochenderfer). ------------------------------ (2) What lemur poetry has Aileen Cho written? Aileen Cho seems to be a particularly passionate Lemur-inspired poet and writer. Her first appearance in alt.fan.lemurs consisted of the following: I was a ring-tailed Lemur. I sat in the sun. I ate with my eyes to the sky. I chewed my haunch. The other two Lemurs abused me. I was a loner. I sat on the branch and watched that funny-looking biped through the chain-link fence who sat there watching me and muttering something about a zoo exercise for acting class. I got the strangest feeling that she thought she was me. I hiccuped. Then it was feeding time. She followed up with: In honor of my favorite Lemur at the LA zoo, Hiccup my way, oh ragged-hide Lemur Show me your ring-tail, you suntanning dreamer Your owlish visage full of Sartre-esque woe Is cuter than many a primate I know Curl on your perch as I murmur good night, Sleep well, and don't let the zookeeper bite Aileen says: Ahhhhhh, if I demonstrate any flashes of literary inspira- tion it is indeed, irrevocably and undeniably due to my welling affection and tender dotage upon said Lemur in the LA Zoo...forever will I mourn that I was not born a female Lemur...I will never know his name, but his intense gaze, his thoughtful pose as he stared at a helicopter overhead, chewing on his apple, his quirky hiccup, the way he earnest- ly chewed on the fur of his Lemur's femur...forever will my Lemur-oriented writings be created with Le Mur in my mind. Her latest work follows: I asked my lemur associates what they thought about the recent display of lemur verse. My particular friend, Lemur the Loner, raised his bespectacles eyes up to the sky and yawned, proceeding to stuff another cracker down his mouth and chewing with jaws agape.. Another Lemur, named LeMar, jumped up into the corner and curled up into an adorabble furry ball as a response to my query. I climbed the chain-link fence to ask the lemur prophet If life is just a tree, and when do we get off it? Though curled up in a ball, He raised his furry head And blinked -- his jaw fell open To speak -- but yawned instead But then he leaped on down, To sit upon the ground, Arms outspread, to praise the sun And when his tanning time was done This lemur sage, without a blink Said to me, "My friend, go....frink." Send comments/criticism to ac@cheshire.oxy.edu (Aileen Cho). ------------------------------ (3) What lemur poetry has Greg Morrow written? Lemur in summer Trailing Twinkies through the trees Suddenly, a "Frink!" Ringtail rascal sits, Prosimian pondering. Below, a leaf falls. Send comments/criticism to MORROW@FNAL.FNAL.GOV (Greg Morrow). ------------------------------ (4) What lemur poetry has Nancy VonStein written? In response to the question "How much wood would a lemur chuck if a lemur could chuck wood?", Nancy wrote: A lemur would not chuck wood - even if he could. He'd sit and frink & sit and frink And let the woodchuck chuck the wood. Send comments/criticms to nvonstein@memstvx1.memst.edu (Nancy VonStein). ------------------------------ (5) What lemur poetry has Diana Senechal written? A Poem About The Lemur, From Whom All Good Things Come A gleam of eye. A Madagascar barren steppe, ogled by the clusters of flaring balls bouncing, sprinkled through eons. Rustles of grass. The furry scoundrel lights his way of mischief. In his eyes we see the caves. His skin ripples. Aplay, he kindles dreams. Sometimes he sends me gleanings of the dreams. Leaping, the cornfields leap, cackling, the sky plays tricks, hiding, the sunrise schemes, gliding, I ride the scarlet breeze, and hide in similes. The lemur took me on a walk. The walk led me to this place and date. The walk has not ended. I have never seen these places before. Too far away to know by his fingers, the little beast sends semblances, tokens, wrapped in obscurity. We all have guardian lemurs; each one brings different gifts. Each secret gift, a fuzzy slinky, bounces down the steppes into the room where broken glass, melted by real torches, blown into real glimmering twisty hollows, delights your eyes, lights you a maze, as twists of colored glass were meant to do. Send comments/criticism to sendiaa@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (Diana Senechal). ------------------------------ (6) What lemur poetry has "d." written? I'm a fan of lemurs, and the lemurs, they like me. We live together swinging by the kitchen light so free. And if I ever broke my friendship with them in anger or in haste, It would probably be cos' I'm so curious about how a lemur tastes. Send comments/criticisms to page@cerdic.cs.odu.edu ("d.") ------------------------------ (7) What lemur poetry has Greg Bole written? Leaping lemur, how you love to launch loosely, looping through the leaves. You land looking lively, living for your little levitations. Send comments/criticisms to bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) ------------------------------ (8) What lemur poetry has "The Amazing Immolating Man" written? "The Lemur" I am a lemur And I leem and I leem I leem through Madagascar's treetops I see the Twinkies come out of the sky Yeah, they're bright in a vending machine You know it looks so good tonight I am a lemur I stay in the trees I look through my window so bright I see the stars come out tonight You see my bright and glowing eyes Over Madagascar in the trees And everything looks good tonight Frinkin' cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep-cheep-cheep cheep Cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep-cheep-cheep cheep Cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep-cheep-cheep cheep cheep-cheep Get me a Twinkie We'll be lemurs We'll leem through Madagascar tonight See Madagascar's Twinkie supply We'll see our large and glowing eyes We'll see the stars that shine so brigh These Twinkies were made for us tonight Oh the lemur How how he leems Oh the lemur He leems and he leems He leems through the grassland What does he see? He sees with big reflective eyes He see the stars come out tonight He sees Madagascar's Twinkie supply He sees the shining treetop skies And everything was made for you and me All of it was made for you and me 'cause it just belongs to you and me So let's take a leem and see what's mine Frinking... Oh, the lemur He leems and he leems He sees things from in the trees He looks through his great big eyes He sees the Twinkies he knows are his He sees the National Geographic photographer He sees Madagascar asleep at night He sees the stars are out tonight And all of it is yours and mine And all of it is yours and mine Oh, let's leem and leem and leem and leem... Frinking... Send comments/criticisms to mute@ramanujan.WPI.EDU (The Amazing Immolating Man) ------------------------------ (9) What lemur poetry has Rachel Perkins written? The following poem was inspired by Rachel's lemur finger-puppet. lemur lemur on my finger, to me you're a contentment bringer, with you i can frink and swing on lampshades, also now in lemur sing. Send comments/criticisms to rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins). ------------------------------ (10) What lemur poetry has Sean Barrett written? lemur in the tree eye bigger than camera lens frink frink frink frink frink Send comments/criticisms to sbar@genie.geis.com (Sean Barrett). ------------------------------------------------------------------ Revised February 15, 1993 by Joel Furr, jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu