Ask the Giraffe


Is it high?
Is it low?
Is it the middle?
Is it soft?
Is it loud?
Is it taller than an airplane?
Is a giraffe a noise?
Is a giraffe music?
Has a giraffe ever been in an airplane?
What does a giraffe in an airplane sound like?
Is it supersonic?
Can a giraffe be supersonic?
Is a giraffe Jazz?
Supersonic airplane jazz?
Is a giraffe in an airplane a song?
Are giraffes loud enough?
Is a flying giraffe a bird?
Is a zoo an airplane?
Is a zoo a book?
Is a giraffe a poem?
Are its legs pencils?
Listen to the flies buzzbuzz around the giraffe’s head.
Are the buzzbuzz flies music?
Will giraffes ever stop being so tall?
Will the flies ever stop singing?
Is it too much to ask a flying giraffe to stop playing supersonic airplane jazz?
It’s too much to ask.
Is a stampede of giraffes a marching band?
Is a zoo a book?
Does anyone have any questions about giraffes?
(ask the questions)
Does anyone have any questions for the giraffes?
(ask the questions)
Ask the Jazz Giraffe your airplane questions.
Ask the giraffe which buzzbuzz flies he likes best.
Mr. Giraffe, do you like people?
Do you like the songs they sing?
Are they high?
Are they low?
Will you sing some jazz with the people?
No?
Who will you sing with?
The buzzbuzz flies?
The supersonic airplanes?
Mr. Giraffe, is it too much to ask?
Mr. Giraffe, we think people are music.
Mr. Giraffe, we think a zoo is a book.
We think a zoo is a songbook.

We think your legs are pencils.
We think your legs are drumsticks.
Mr. Giraffe, we like your Jazz.
We like your buzzbuzz supersonic airplane marching band stampede Jazz.
WHY WON’T YOU SING WITH US??!!??!?!?
Mr. Giraffe, you are being very difficult.
Tall and difficult.
We don’t think you ever ACTUALLY sing Jazz with anyone.
Mr. Giraffe, I know your deep, dark, tall secrets.
Giraffe, I have seen you dancing at night, dancing with the flies, to the music of supersonic jazz airplanes, dancing at the zoobook to the beat of your own marching-band hooves, pounding.