Jocko DeZebra

Its International Tuba Day! It’s International Tuba Day!
We celebrate it  every first friday in May
So grab a tuba and blow it away
Run through the streets and make it be heard
First blow one tuba,       then another,             then a third!
Lets have tubas tubas tubas tubas abound
In our homes in our neighborhoods- wherever ears can be found

Give a tuba to your puppies Give a tuba to your kitties
Give a tuba to your favorite turtle in Mississippi
Let every creature great and small
Play a tuba – one and all

Loud and proud
Big and brassy
Dynamic, smart and sometimes sassy

Take a tuba everywhere and play it like you just don’t care
(even when onlookers begin to stare)

Take a tuba into Sri Lanka
Tuba Idahoans then Casablanca
Just let your emotions fly out of a tuba
(but be sure to waterproof it, for when you scuba)

Standing out within a crowd
Every creature standing proud
From the tallest elephant to the shortest mouse
Even your neighbor in the small yellow house
Each with a tuba musically creating
some sweet tuba melodies-all captivating

Oh no-you Don’t have a tuba??
Ok don’t fret…
You’ll celebrate the tuba yet
Grab a tuba toothpaste!
That’ll work for the duration
You see it’s what you hold in your heart
that makes a tuba celebration

THE FLYING PENGUIN

I know of a marvelous penguin
Who can be seen above in the sky
Because after so many years of trying
He finally learned how to fly

Over six hundred-thousand attempts
It took him to achieve it
And when asked “How is this possible?”
He said “I guess I just really believed it”

I’m trying to grow chocolate vegetables
in the yard behind our building

they say its never been done before
but I’m intent on making this score
because I can’t stand mom’s broccoli no more
and if you also choose to ignore
cauliflower, beets, and snow peas galore
come help me figure out this chore

and I promise then we’ll make millions

My thumb has gone into a black hole and now i cant open this soup
When I realized my thumb disappeared I’ll admit I was thrown for a loop
I guess it fell off in my kitchen- hit the floor and did a roll
into this crack in the corner of the room where we have a small black hole
Scientists say that nothing ever returns from a hole of black
I’m hoping that every scientist is wrong

and somehow I’ll get my thumb back