Mayhem Poetry Thursday

The Mayhem Poets have brought exciting performance poetry to theater festivals, hip-hop and rock concerts, community events, and Youth Education assemblies across the country.  Today, we welcome them to Lafayette School!  Poetry on Parade will post photos from the fourth and fifth grade assemblies when available.

Mayhem Thursday is also Middle Name Pride Day, a day to celebrate our  unique and seldom-used middle names. Our Performance Poem of the Day offers a Seussian solution for a family that wasn't very creative in the name department: 

Too Many Daves

Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons, and she named them all Dave?
Well, she did. And that wasn’t a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one, and calls out “Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!” she doesn’t get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!
This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves’
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn.
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey.
And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O’Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff.
One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed.
And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed.
And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt.
And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt.
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate . . . .
But she didn’t do it. And now it’s too late.

-- Dr. Seuss

We think that practicing and performing Too Many Daves with a group of friends would be a great way to celebrate Mayhem Thursday and Middle Name Pride Day!