Poem of the Week 54

People Who Say Yada Yada Yada Should Go to Yaddo Yaddo Yaddo

When I was but a lad O
By the track at Saratoga
Where the Travers is in vogue O
In the shadow of old Yaddo

I went a little mad O
In the movement known as Dada
Writing nada nada nada
In the shadow of old Yaddo.

Till an artist said egad no!
Worse than yada yada yada‘s
Writing nada, nada, nada
In the shadow of old Yaddo.

In the end it wasn’t bad, au
Contraire, I trust in God a
Man can write an awful lotta
Words at Yaddo Yaddo Yaddo.

—Fred Yannantuono