Dear Ula (Pink Flamingos)

Poem beginning with lines by Lizzo

Dear Ula (@avibrantmind),

hope you’re doing good! hope you don’t me reaching out in this way, but your TikTok with the flamingo rings came up the other day and really stayed with me, and my friend Jack and i decided to make a song about it

@avibrantmindI love watching people float over a salmon run while anglers are all serious out there #campbellriver #vancouverisland #vanisland #salmonrun #campbellriverbc #explorebc #travelbc #float @DiscoverCampbellRiver #discovercampbellriver

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Jack ran with the ‘pink flamingos’ theme and sampled from a song of the same name by Tracy Byrd. meanwhile, i sampled lines from your video

listen / read below but only if you like, no pressure

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Pink Flamingos


          i need 
a sentimental man
to float over 
a salmon run 
to cancel the paperboy 
and request a shiatsu:
‘the newspapers never 
said our names,’ 
we never said thank you
to the old irish ryans
grown crusty 
in the gumshoe 
          the jacuzzi jets 
with their fusion jazz 
march all over you 
a tinnitus 
he hears as pink
flamingo rings go
cows for leather
fibre optic
parachute
          point is 
peter pan
needs a haircut
to make sierra scan
brian hasset
out of there
and the albino crabs
move their legs in 
imitation of the americans 
          should work on
a supermodel’s clavicles
she can hear 
the fibres of her cotton robe
how every paper straw 
disintegrated 
          they can go pin lights
to themselves like 
christmas baubles
i’ve never digested one
until now
tried to smoke a choker
at coachella
as she addressed 
the rolled cornbread
seeing death
dangling from each bee
          if only the devil 
had invented satanism
instead of hardscrabble 
peasants by papa john's 
with 'tissue paper flowers' 
who send a team 
and a big e-mail 
to let them know
my family's got a flair 
for the dramatic now
‘a flamingo understands’
why i let the tinnitus 
do the talking:
‘thou frowst thy head 
at the gravy boat’
‘thy wife 
has seen napoleon’
          ‘thou needst 
a sentimental man
to float over 
a salmon run’

Thanks again for ‘the contrast of this moment’! this was fun

all best wishes,

Sammi

p.s. if there are any other videos you think would make good prompts do let us know! thx

p.p.s. also made me think of these ‘lub glubs’, for my sins