a passing show On and off Broadway - on moon butter yams

Joel Banner Baird - 1st and 2nd voice, organ

jhaffur khan azad darakth - announcer, 2nd and 3rd voice, trumpet

Lip-sinkers On Broadway

Pray do pray tell

what on earth possessed you

what obsession pressed you to

so shake your jaw?

so highly jinxed

so lowly waxed on

moon-butter yams, oh

say and sing no more, oh

insist that your ventriloquist

apologize

to the astrologist

whose name I missed

subtitled, hold that bridle

in cahoots

with binge-thinkers, tea-smokers and

open-eared retirees.

sweet anodyne

chap-stuck, bee-stung rhyme

naughty pouts

and potty-mouths

pray do pray tell

are you alive, a lion or a lie?

Please confirm your membership

to the league of lip-sinkers anonymous

jbb Dec. 12 2021