[Newspoetry] LINDIE LINDA!!!

[charles joseph smith]

This poem is in reaction to seeing the PBS program, "Hey, Mr. Director!",
which featured segments from Broadway musicals, including "Let Me
Entertain You", from the musical "Gypsy" (for the character Gypsy Rose
Lee). If I were to be the librettist for "Gypsy 2", I would make a new
character who loves burlesque dancing--LINDIE LINDA! Hence, this poem is
goin' to go just like this....

                    LINDIE LINDA

       --by Charles Joseph Smith ("Linden")

Lindie Linda,
Lindie Linda,
She dances so beautifully,
That Lindie Linda.
Lindie Linda,
Lindie Linda,
She dances so wonderfully
That Lindie Linda.

She can do an arabesque
That is so picturesque
And so Chopinesque
In the world of burlesque;
She is like Gypsy Rose Lee
For she is like an Lindenbaum---a linden tree,
So lively and divine and free

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