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    Official USENET Alt.Fan.Lemurs Frinkquently Asked Questions
                    Part 3 of 6  -- Lemur Poetry

This posting contains the "Lemur Poetry" archive.  I freely admit that
these aren't much in the way of FAQs in the classical sense of "fre-
quently asked questions," but you'd be surprised -- this is one of the
most popular sections of the FAQ.  If you don't like poetry, DON'T READ
THIS SECTION.  It's as simple as that.

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              The Questions (Well, you know what I mean)

(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 Mary Page written?
(7) What lemur poetry has Greg Bole written?
(8) What lemur poetry has Josh Brandt written?
(9) What lemur poetry has Rachel Perkins written?
(10) What lemur poetry has Sean Barrett written?
(11) What lemur poetry has David Bianco written?
(12) What lemur poetry has Josh Smith written?
(13) What lemur poetry has Ericka Perdew written?
(14) What lemur poetry has Jay Stock/Dale Jarvis written?
(15) What lemur poetry has Susan Miller written?
(16) What lemur poetry has Jim Griffith written?
(17) What lemur poetry has John Donald Schriner written?
(18) What lemur poetry has Joseph McMahon written?
(19) What lemur poetry has Charles Davis written?
(20) What lemur poetry has Joe Schelin written?
(21) What lemur poetry has Mike Knell written?
(22) What lemur poetry has Erin Kenyon written?
(23) What lemur poetry has K.G. Anderson written?
(24) What lemur poetry has Edward Hennis written?
(25) What lemur poetry has Richard Hartman written?
(26) What lemur poetry has Tob Wood written?
(27) What lemur poetry has Christopher Reed written?
(28) What lemur poetry has Adam Rixey written?
(29) What lemur poetry has Jason Corley written?
(30) What lemur poetry has Ali Lemer written?
(31) What lemur poetry has Rob Partington written?

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                            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).

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(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.

A recent 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."


And:

    Oh I wish I were an awesome mild lemur
    That is what I'd truly like to be
    'Cause if I were an awesome mild lemur
    Everyone would be in love with me.
 
    (Cut to scene of lemur eating a bologna sandwich).

                                                            bad day.
                                                                         
                                                 --ac
  
Lemur,
   Ring tailed eyes
   wide in surprise
   as the cow
   moos
  Lemur
   drinks Mountain Dew
   and when he's through
   asks the cow
   for booze
  Lemur
   unwraps a Twinkie
   feeling so frink-y    
   as the cow
   chews
 Lemur
   yawns in the sun
   and when he's done
   takes the cow
   on a cruise

         ha!   ha!   ha!

Send comments/criticism to ac@cheshire.oxy.edu (Aileen Cho).

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(3) What lemur poetry has Greg Morrow written?

Greg quoth: "As one of the founders of the Lemur Haiku school of poetry,
I must say that we *really* suck, and that's a good thing, cuz so-called
"good" poets are mostly snotty black-clad pretentious bastards who
should be bopped with twinkies."


Lemur in summer
Trailing Twinkies through the trees
Suddenly, a "Frink!"


Ringtail rascal sits,
Prosimian pondering.
Below, a leaf falls.


Fairly does the lemur swing,
From tree to tree, a godlike thing,
With great huge eyes and tufted hair,
I know I see a lemur there!
What does he think upon that limb?
But more, how does he stay so slim?
A diet of soda and worse,
'Tis nigh as bad as this poor verse.


Cream-filled violence,
Black stretch pants versus ringtails;
Eurodance plays on.

    
Send comments/criticism to MORROW@FNAL.FNAL.GOV (Greg Morrow).

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(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).

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(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).

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(6) What lemur poetry has Mary Page 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.


      "I must be REALLY bored"

      Gentle Lemur--
      Lemur of the Night
      Hold my fear,
      Steal my fright.
      Eat my twinkee--
      You're welcome to it.
      Ptang my cat,
      You want to do it.
      Swing from light,
      Bang at glass.
      Eat my oreos,
      and I'll kick your (censored).


      "To Frink"

      To Run, To Jump, and Yes, To Frink.
      I think I need another Drink.

      (yes, that's all.)


      Short Lemur Pink Floyd Song.

      I don't wanna be a lemur.
      I don't wanna eat twinkees.
      Just can't get that cellophane open.
      Not worth the trouble at all to me...
      All in all I'm just a-
      Another lemur in the mall.
      All in all we're all
      Another Lemur in the mall.
      Get to Chessking, eat the jackets.
      Leave some (censored) at Burger King.
      Love to torture those small children
      And Frink just to be Frinking.

      All in all, the world--
      Just lemurs in the Mall.
      All in all I'm just a--
      Another lemur in the wall.



      Once this night I dreamt again
      Of Wide skies and lemur eyes
      I reached and skritched one upon the chin
      He 'frinks' with gentle sighs.

      His tail lay soft upon my arm
      Camera-faced, inscrutable
      Forever ageless; safe from harm
      Quiet and immutable.

      I love my lemur, this is true
      We've never had a fight
      Except when he leaves that twinkee goo
      Upon my kitchen light.

      Noble Lemur!  Friend of Man!
      Smarter than a cat!
      He's dead now, he should've ran
      Or watched where I sat.



      Unbeknownst to many, that ever-popular group the Rascals, 
      had a first draft to their song 'Good Lovin'' ...here, 
      revealed for the first time...

      I was feelin' so bad.
      I asked my favorite Lemur what I had
      I said 'Lemur, ptang frink frink'
      Can you tell me, what I oughtta drink.
      He said 'Cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep'
      (cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep)

      All you need,
      Well all I really need
      is
      BIG K
      BIG K
      BIG K

      Come on Lemur, squeeze me tight
      Don't you want the guy who feeds you to be alright.
      I said 'Lemur, its for sure,
      Eat those twinkies and I'll buy ya more.
      Cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep.'
      (cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep)

      All I need,
      Well all I really need
      is
      BIG K
      BIG K
      BIG K

      (solo)

      chorus repeated.



      There once was a lemur named Binky.
      That loved Big K soda and Twinkies.
      But his favorite of all
      Was to heed nature's call
      And Ptang everything with his dinky.


Send comments/criticisms to page@cerdic.cs.odu.edu (Mary Page).

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(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.


Lemur with a gun
Seduced by a life of crime
Twinkies or your life


Gothic lemur waits
Perched next to a gargoyle
Evil thirst for Big-K


He spots a victim
Swooping, fangs quest for soda
Vanishes...then FRINK!

Send comments/criticisms to bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)

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(8) What lemur poetry has Josh Brandt 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...

   

    Oh tiny-fingered creature
    Turn your eyes toward me
    Let me but gaze
    Into the depths of your brown orbs
    Until I fall, lost, into the depths
    Of your mind
    The only mind that truly knows
    The meaning
    Of the word
    "Frink."


My fondest dream
to float, like purest gossamer,
above the forest floor
where play the lemurs.

Oh, but to see, to gaze
upon the large-eyed ones, 
the tiny forest-children
with tiny feet and hands.

   Send comments/criticisms to mute@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Josh Brandt)

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(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).

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(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 (Sue Miller/Sean
Barrett).

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(11) What lemur poetry has David Bianco written?

seven eleven
home of the big slushie drinks
lemur prefers grape
                                                              
lemur remembers
once there were vines to swing from
but aisles are nice too

oh no the lemur
the store is out of twinkies
he'll have fritos instead

cutish and furry
Lemur wonders 'bout chickens
likes them in soup, though


Send comments/criticisms to bianco@cs.odu.edu (David J. Bianco).


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(12) What lemur poetry has Josh Smith written?

alt.fan.lemurs spreads:
swiftly growing readership
as Joel spreads the word

Memories fading:
Images of lemurs turn
To dust in my mind

Send comments/criticisms to irilyth@fenris.claremont.edu (Josh Smith).


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(13) What lemur poetry has Ericka Perdew written?

              Furry soft lemurs
         Gulping Big K and Twinkies
             They'll need Mylanta

Send comments/criticisms to barker@acc.fau.edu (Ericka Perdew).


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(14) What lemur poetry has Jay Stock/Dale Jarvis written?

(Note: this poem came from jstock@TrentU.CA (jay stock) but was signed
DJARVIS@TRENTU.CA (Dale Jarvis).  Your guess is as good as mine.)

      The evening before my lemur died,
      The Madagascar night sky had open up its sluice gates;
      And everything had been drenched in the sweet
      Pure rain of early summer.

      The pines towered over us, we two;
      Dwarfed by the majesty of the reddish trunks
      Rising like monstrous poles to their jade canopy
      An impossible canvas tent;
      The only heaven we could see.

      I remember small things: his eyes
      big as hubcaps, a flying squirrel without wings.
      His opposable thumb circling mine as we walked.
      Our Snoopy rubber boots crunching.
      The Twinkie crumbs on our shirtfronts.
      The dead needles breaking like tiny lemming bones.
      The light filtering green through the tree tops.

      We were so young, and I,
      The eldest by four years, barely eleven.

      One tree was older or younger than its kin,
      And its branches grew closer to the ground,
      Closer to our grasping hands.
      Closer to our climbing feet.

      We climbed higher and higher, my lemur and me.
      Our voices sang in adoration of nature:
      Now laughing, now talking, now groaning
      At a difficult stretch between the wet branches,
      Or at the pitch which oozed like Aunt Jemima Light Maple Syrup
      From the trunk and encased our hands.

      The rain forest floor spread out beneath us,
      Dark satin fitting snugly against the wood.
      I could taste the wind, and smell the sky
      I shouted with delight, and heard my lemur gasp
      As I turned and watched him slip and fall,
      A flying squirrel without wings.

      The equitorial forest was alive with sound but for the muffled
      Silence my lemur made as he hit the needles,
      Their dead mass embracing his.

      We were so young, and I,
      The eldest by four years, barely eleven.


Send comments/criticisms to jstock@trentu.ca and djarvis@trentu.ca.


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(15) What lemur poetry has Susan Miller written?

Some Lemur Carols -- from Sue Miller

111.  God Rest Ye Merry, Lemurs All.

   God rest ye merry, lemurs all,
   Let nothing you dismay.
   Remember that a lemur swings
   From kitchen lamps all day
   To show us how to a lemur plays
   And blends the blues away.

   Oh tidings of frinking and joy, frinking and joy!
   Oh tidings of frinking and joy.

   A Twinkie is a wondrous food
   For lemurs, who like sweets.
   And YooHoo is a favorite drink,
   'Twill bring them from their seats.
   Oh! feed your lemurs junky food
   And keep your Circle-K receipts!

   Oh tidings of frinking and joy, frinking and joy!
   Oh tidings of frinking and joy.
   White chocolate macadamia,
   Or Semi-sweet with nuts,
   Or oatmeal raisin cookies too
   To fill their furry guts.
   Leave bags upon your patio
   And you will get your cut.

   Oh tidings of frinking and joy, frinking and joy!
   Oh tidings of frinking and joy.



200.  Ptang!  The Herald Lemur Swings

   Ptang! The herald lemur swings
   From kitchen lamps and hanging things!
   Twinkies stir their appetites,
   So feed some to them every night.
   Joyful now lemurs all rise.
   Swing from lampposts, swing from neckties!
   With zoologic zeal proclaim
   "Down with cows!  The lemurs reign!"
   Ptang! The herald lemur swings
   From kitchen lamps and hanging things.

Send comments/criticisms to Susan Miller <miller_su@swam1.enet.dec.com>.


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(16) What lemur poetry has Jim Griffith written?


      Sonnet #1
      Ode to a Lemur
      By Jim Griffith

      Ringed tails pointed to the sky,
      Lemurs use them to find one another.
      The young ones clinging to their mother,
      Their fur matted with Hostess pie.
      The older ones climbing up high,
      Leaping and playing with each other,
      When the cows come, they duck for cover.
      No one is quite sure why.

      With prehensile tail and big brown eyes,
      Opposable thumb to open twinkies
      How I wish I were a lemur!
      Even with grape soda on their thighs
      And frosting on their pinkies
      They draw chicks better than a Beemer.


      Sonnet #2
      Adventures in Lemur Infestation
      By Jim Griffith

      I awake to the sound of cellophane
      Rustling in my den
      I rush there to see and then
      As I cross the entry main
      I sight frosting prints on the window pane
      Grape soda stains the ottomen
      The lemurs have returned again
      The signs are all too plain.

      How do I keep my place lemur-free?
      This I have yet to learn,
      And no answer seems near.
      I can cut down every tree,
      And still they will return
      To swing upon my chandelier.



       Soft fur and large eyes
       Rings on its tail and it cries
       Frink frink frink frink frink

           Jim
        Wasn't sure if "ptang" was 1 syllable or 2


    The Death of the Lemur

        Beautiful eyes with striped fur,
        Mournful eyes do not condemn,
        Watch the passing by of men
        Watch its home get ploughed under.
        Dust and smoke fill the air,
        As men destroy years of life
        Machines slice the jungle like a knife
        Strewing death and waste everywhere.

        Beautiful eyes retreat in the dark
        Across mounds of deadened leaves and bark
        Further and further every day
        As the jungle shrinks in every way
        And soon it comes into the sun
        As there's nowhere left to run.

Send comments/criticism to griffith@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Griffith).

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(17) What lemur poetry has John Donald Schriner written?

Lemur at Easter
hiding in mother's basket
throwing jellybeans.

Squirt cheese on crackers
Grape soda and a twinkie
Lemur's midnight snack

Juggling Lemurs
a dangerous performance
they usually bite.

Lemurs everywhere
swinging from my kitchen light
with a crash, it falls.
     
Charging lemmings fall
crushed on rocks by pounding waves
running from Lemurs.

Petrified Twinkies
a bovine conspiracy
or Lemur weapon?

Send comments/criticism to John Donald Schriner (102 Glenn Circle,
Rolesville NC 27571).

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(18) What lemur poetry has Joseph McMahon written?

Ringtails in the dawn
Stealing all of the Twinkies
Dead vending machine

Send comments/criticism to Joseph McMahon (xrjdm@twinpeaks.gsfc.nasa.-
gov).

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(19) What lemur poetry has Charles Davis written?

See through Lemur's eyes.
Hostess treats beckon you near...
Slightly moldy, man.

But soft, what soft butt,
Long to frink, perchance to leem...
uncommon ringtail!

Send comments/criticism to Charles Davis (roldgold@cwis.unomaha.edu) 

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(20) What lemur poetry has Joe Schelin written?

Oh what fun it would be to be a lemur
To sit around all day and frink, frink
ptang, ptang whoooo frink frink and whooo
I could explain to my friends why I act the
way I do, jumping around, making weird sounds (Hey I rhymed)
I could tell them "I'm a lemur"


Lemur, lemur
Roll your eyes.
Lemur, lemur
Frink 'till you die
Lemur, lemur
My friends say "Oh my!"
Lemur, lemur
I love the way you fly.
Lemur, lemur
With those jet packs you did not buy.
Lemur, lemur
Those twinkies you buy.
Lemur, lemur
I think you're on a sugar high.

Send comments/criticism to Joe Schelin (JKS3900@ritvax.isc.rit.edu).

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(21) What lemur poetry has Mike Knell written?


        cold night in winter
        Twinkie box is cold and bare
        lemur dreams of spring


        early days of spring
        lemur wakes from restful sleep
        blinks at new found sun


        sunny summer day
        lemurs leem with joyful cries
        ptanging in the woods             * 'ptang' as one syllable..


        days grow short once more
        lemur must prepare himself
        winter is soon here

Send comments/criticism to Mike Knell (eeyimkn@unicorn.nott.ac.uk).

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(22) What lemur poetry has Erin Kenyon written?

The Lemur Story - in Shakespearean Sonnet Form

The lemur is swinging from tree to tree
But our furry friend, he's hollow inside
(The Island don't get much action, you see)
To shipyard went he, and found him a ride
Crammed inside of a shipping compartment
No room to move, not even for a blink
But, hey, our friend didn't have to pay rent
Even found Twinkies and Big-K to drink!
Lemur got off the ship, stretched his tail long
And set out to find a new place to swing
Leeming along, in his mind went a GONG-
"DUPC has a familiar ring!"
He's established himself firmly at Duke
(Blue Devil for mascot?  That's just a fluke.)


Lemurs are swinging
All around; where did they learn
Of Benny Goodman?

Send comments/criticms to Erin Kenyon (slatenist@maple.circa.ufl.edu).

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(23) What lemur poetry has K.G. Anderson written?


Transylvania Lemur
Stalks at night the sweet Big-K
This thirst knows no bounds

Twinkies gone at night
Left no trace, no one knows why
Frinksome fanged one smiles

Travelers fear the night
Clutching close their cream-filled treats
Ptang! Their snack is gone

Villagers, enraged
Trace the lempyre to his nest
Ready wooden stake

Wait, endangered one!
DUPC offers hope!
Lempyre finds new home

Durham, summer night
Chandeliers swing back and forth
Frinksome fanged one free?

Send comments/criticism to K.G. Anderson (kga@uncmvs.oit.unc.edu).

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(24) What lemur poetry has Edward Hennis written?


Lemur in my fridge
Looking around for Big-K.
How 'bout some Kool-aid?


Send comments/criticism to Edward Hennis (ximinez@maple.circa.ufl.edu).

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(25) What lemur poetry has Richard Hartman written?


A lemur falls
The command cow laughs loudly
The world mourns 
Send comments/criticism to Richard Hartman (hartman@ulogic.UUCP).

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(26) What lemur poetry has Tob Wood written?


On the couch, sitting, a lemur
Looking casual, and demure
Reading Francis Bacon and laughing his head off, style comes naturally.


When lemurs and humans can't resist
The temptation to make the cows cease and desist
They go out to eat, munch Twinkies (tm) drink Big K, there's a reason
they're  called steaks, baby.


Oh, Nigel, your constant desire
To end cow rule, sets fire
To the Barn Of Cow Consciousness and I smile since it's barbeque time!


Send comments/criticism to Tob Wood (tob@cwis.unomaha.edu).

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(27) What lemur poetry has Christopher Reed written?

Into my cold heart
shocking pangs of laughter break.
Lemurs are playing.

(or should that be ptangs?)


My twinkies are gone.
My chandelier's a trapeeze.
Such joyful chaos!


Send comments/criticism to Christopher Reed (concave@convex1.tcs.tu-
lane.edu).

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(28) What lemur poetry has Adam Rixey written?

jumping on haiku
bandwagon since I am bored
(Twinkies have gone stale)


no Big K up here
disappointed lemurs mourn
frink supermarket

Send comments/criticism to Adam Rixey (nyarl+@CMU.EDU).

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(29) What lemur poetry has Jason Corley written?

My Friend Paul The Lemur

[As many of you may remember...Paul the Physics Lemur and I worked with
Kirkegaard the Koala of Physics several summers ago, and on this,  his
24,828,765th birthday (in lemur years), I would like to give this little
tribute to Paul and his work.]

Those strange fingers on the Twinkie
You said the cursor blinked too slowly,
And the hundred sodas you poured on the screen,
A purplish sticky sheen of bubbles and fizz,
Our friend Kirk, we all got his jokes,
And we smoked long Australian cigarettes,
And the collider hummed all night long,
But the dawn came, and there was no hanging lamp anywhere to be seen.

Send comments/criticism to Jason Corley (corleyj@helium.gas.uug.ari-
zona.edu).

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(30) What lemur poetry has Ali Lemer written?


THOUGHTS UPON SEEING A LEMUR
----------------------------
Big brown eyes
Ringed tails
Discarded Twinkies wrapper

Send comments/criticism to Ali Lemer (phoenix@startide@ctr.columbia.-
edu).

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(31) What lemur poetry has Rob Partington written?


Ode to a Lemur
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Oh to frink, ptang and frink
with big-K grape to drink and drink
twinkies and huge eyes to blink
Oh to be a lemur!


Frinking
--------
Like ghostly shadows small and bright,
 in the shadowy forest night.
Moving quick, now moving slow.
 forest floor so far below.
Awesome in their furry might,
 frinking lemurs brown and white.

Any comments/cash/flames greatly appreciated.

Send comments/criticisms to Rob Partington (partingr@p4.cs.man.ac.uk).

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Before we close the poetry section, let me just say, "THERE ARE OTHER
FORMS OF POETRY BESIDES HAIKUS.  LEARN WHAT 'IAMBIC PENTAMETER' MEANS,
DAMMIT!"  Thank you, it's good to get that off my chest.

The FAQ continues with Part 4 of 6, "Lemurs Versus Cows."

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  Revised February 15, 1993 by Joel Furr, jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
    Revised April 5, 1993 by Joel Furr, jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
    Revised July 6, 1993 by Joel Furr, jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
