I'll read two more found poems.
This next one is the work of a famous poetess of Los Angeles.
There's a good deal about her, the biographical material--
perhaps the apogee of her career was
achieved when she had a special medal struck in her honor
by the Realty Board of Los Angeles.
And I quote, "for her part in the Land Show
Beautiful of America at which her whistling chorus of thirty
girl whistlers appeared six times with great success."
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This extraordinary event took place in 1920,
and it was followed shortly thereafter by her
chef-d'oeuvre, published in New York and it's called Whistling
as an Art.
I discovered in Sonoma, California.
And the poem is made up simply arranged
some of the examination questions
at the rear of the book Whistling as an Art,
and that poem is entitled "The Call of the Eastern Quail"
by Agnes Woodward.
What is the hewie chirp?
How written by note What is triple tonguing?
The reverse chirp?
How expressed?
What are the quittas?
Define the whit-cha.
Define the e-chew.
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What is the chut-ee?
How made?
How expressed?
Define the ascending and descending yodels,
dip yodels and quivers.
What are the two liquid bird figures?
What is the lup-ee?
What is the e-lup?
How made?
How expressed?
What is the call of the Eastern quail?
What is the call of the Western quail?
With tongue and teeth whistlers, what
could be substituted for the yodel, lup, hedala and cudalee?
What is the wave?
On what pulsation do we stop?