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Galapagos Ballet Found this poem about 12 years ago while trolling Usenet for Ocarina trivia. It was signed by Elsie, but was posted anonymously. Tried ever since to locate the author, to no avail. Recently did this funny reading of the poem and Dano Piano and I played some Ocarinas, Whistling Water Vessels and percussion instruments. Elsie, if you see this and want to claim it, let us know. "THE GALAPAGOS BALLET" I was lolling with the faeries in my wise and thoughtful tree, who was playing on his airy ocarina by the sea, when a sprucely dress'd jacana strutted up the drifty beach, and he offer'd a lantana as he made a little speech: 'Having reach'd the termination of their pan-Bornean tour, where tonitruous ovations testified to their allure, I present an invitation to a private matinee of their flaming conflagrations, The Galapagos Ballet!' From out the wavy waters who wash the windy beach crawl'd seventy iguanas, who nodded each to each. They clomb into a pile which rose to form a sphere and roll'd around a while till all the sand was clear. Then it open'd like an oyster, like a flower, lily-lightly, showing forth, as from a cloister -- an iguana Aphrodite stepping lightly in her nighty o'er the sands, who ring so brightly, hither-thither, free and flighty, softly sublimate and spritely. As a suite for ocarina flutter'd through the ocean breeze, the iguana ballerina twirl'd and capriol'd with ease with a fine danseur who stately flew her round with airy grace . . It enchanted me so ...