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I’ve interviewed Pablo Picasso
And a countess named Di Frasso
I’ve interviewed the great Stravinsky
But my greatest achievement
Is the interview I had
With a star who worked for Minsky
I met her at the Yankee Clipper
And she didn’t unzip one zipper
I said
Miss Lee, you are such an artist
Tell me why you never miss
What do you think of while you work?
And she said
While I work
My thoughts go something like this
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Walter Lippmann wasn’t brilliant today
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Will Saroyan ever write a great play?
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I was reading Schopenhauer last night
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And I think that Schopenhauer was right
I don’t want to see Zorina
I don’t want to meet Cobina
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I’m an intellectual
I don’t like a deep contralto
Or a man whose voice is alto
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I’m a heterosexual
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It took intelect to master my art
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Who the hell is Margie Hart?
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I consider Dali’s painting passe
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Will they make the Metropolitan pay?
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English people don’t say 'clerk', they say 'clark'
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Anybody who says 'clark' is a 'jark'!
I adore the great Confucius
And the lines of luscious Lucius
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I am so ecletic
I don’t care for either Mickey
Mouse and Rooney makes me sicky!
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I’m a little hectic
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My artistic taste is classic and dear
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Who the hell’s Lili St. Cyr?