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How do you say, "funky chicken" in Spanish, Poppy?

Cheerios dance when you dance.
Morning is all octaves between head & foot.
Between head.
One source of sugar is a banana - another:
Lively Up Yourself, Charlie Hunter Quartet.
See, there's something to a chicken, dancing, funk.
Through the grates, the reddish housecoat
is a woman morning coffee
a foot tapping, cat scatting
from her window nap.
Wait a minute,
wait a second:
(The turn) or place words won't follow, stir
the kitchen, or explain the way
Cheerios - Sliced bananas - & a foot and head have to dance.

Tom Devaney
1/11/99