9Dunno
©2002 Gibbens/Weston

I dunno
Marilyn Monroe from Greta Garbo,
The Alhambra from Alamogordo,
Austerlitz from Anzio,
Doris Day from Brigitte Bardot,
Quick slow quick from quick quick slow,
Jean Genet from Jean Cocteau,
Tiramisu from chocolate gateau,
Folio from quarto,

Miro from Picasso,
Meringue from tango,
Cous-cous from sago,
Ezra Pound from Edgar Allen Poe,
Impetigo from lumbago,
Top of the Pops from Ready Steady Go,
Dr Who from Dr No,
Heartbreak Hotel from Desolation Row,

Zeppo from Chico,
Barnaby Rudge from Robinson Crusoe,
Rousseau from Rimbaud,
Bambi from Dumbo,
The okapi from the dodo,
A Subaru from a Polo,
Gone with the Wind from Waiting for Godot,
Danny and the Juniors from Dante’s Inferno,

Mayfair from Moscow,
Oratorio from disco,
Constantinople from San Francisco,
Lento from prestissimo,
Babylon from Jericho,
Crêpe de chine from calico,
Jeremiah from Geronimo,
Sambucca from cocoa,

A round-up from a rodeo,
A Virgo from a Scorpio,
Tempera from fresco,
Arapaho from Navajo,
A flamingo from a crow,
Rococo from po-mo,
The Prisoner of Zenda from Ivanhoe,
The Sound of Music from the Story of O,

Miles from Satchmo,
A Leonardo from a Fra Angelico,
Giotto from Michelangelo,
Gauguin from Van Gogh,
Mayo from Sligo,
Nietsche from Plato,
The Mona Lisa from the Venus de Milo,
Bardolph from Romeo,

The Dandy from the Beano,
Donald Duck from Pluto,
Scaramouche from Pierrot,
Rowdy Yates from Tonto,
Kojak from Inspector Clouseau,
A folderol from a hey-nonny-no,
El Paso from Tokyo,
Beaujolais from Bordeau,

Castrato from belcanto,
Jean Harlow from Marlon Brando,
Steak tartare from tête de veau,
Asda from Tesco,
NB from PTO,
A polo pony from a palomino,
A dobro from a cello,
Nixon from Nero,

Dixon of Dock Green from Hawaii Five-O,
A hippo from a rhino,
Sushi from sumo,
Omaha from Idaho,
Slim Harpo from Fats Domino,
The Zambezi from the Congo,
Noblesse oblige from quid pro quo,
Kohlrabi from avocado,

A stanza from a canto,
Daz from Omo,
Morocco from Mexico,
Englebert Humperdinck from Perry Como,
A wally from a bozo,
But she’s my belle and I’m her beau.
I’ll never let her go.
I love her so
I know.

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