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'''"Poetry Club"''' is track 16 of the album ''[[Arthur and Friends: The First Almost Real Not Live CD (or Tape)]]''. It is recitation of poetry by [[Francine Frensky|Francine]], [[Buster Baxter|Buster]] and [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] with a percussive accompaniment. The poems were originally featured in the ''[[Arthur (TV series)|Arthur]]'' story "[[I'm a Poet]]." [[D.W. Read|D.W.]] also inserts herself into the proceedings in her own unique fashion.

==Poems==
'''Buster'''<br />

Time for poetry club.<br />


'''Francine'''<br />

My dad took me to a hockey game<br />
I got hit on the head by a puck<br/>
I yelled out &mdash; Ow! My head! Ow!<br />
Call an ambulance! Ouch! Ow!<br />
Oh, brother, this hurts!<br />
Put ice on it!<br />
It's gonna swell!<br />
I got a big old purple lump on my head<br />
And used it for show and tell.<br />


'''Buster'''<br />

These are the things that make me nauseous<br />
Gloopy green gloop that drips from faucets<br />
Blue hair that grows on slices of bread<br />
When your big old dog drools in your bed.<br />
When a dirty sock drops on your face, P.U.<br />
When your friend's baby sister starts to spew<br />
Half a worm in the apple you bit<br />
Finding a human bone in your jello<br />
Blowing nose-slime green and yellow<br />
And people who eat creamed corn with their<br />
mouths open so you can see it.<br />
The end.<br />


'''Arthur''' ("Jimmy in the City")<br />

Jimmy was a happy ape until some hunters caught him<br />
He liked the jungle better than the city where they brought him<br />

The city was louder; the city was meaner<br />
Even the dirt in the jungle was cleaner<br />

So Jimmy made a daring escape<br />
The hunters were suddenly minus one ape<br />

He climbed the tallest building<br />
Because from there he'd see<br />
How far away the jungle was<br />
From the middle of the city<br />

Jimmy jumped into a passing plane<br />
But the pilot didn't wait for him to explain<br />

Jimmy flew back to the jungle and told his ape<br />
friends in their lair<br />
"The city's okay for a visit,<br />
but you couldn't make me live there."


'''D.W.'''<br />

Wacky, goofy, goony, screwy<br />
Absolutely busalooey

'''Arthur'''<br />

Hold it! Did you say "busalooey"?<br />

'''D.W.'''<br />

You're interrupting my poem.<br />

'''Arthur'''<br />

There's no such word... except in that song!<br />

'''D.W.'''<br />

You didn't say I couldn't read it. You just said...<br />

'''Arthur'''<br />

No "[[Crazy Bus]]"!

==External links==
*[http://web.archive.org/web/19991012141455/http://pbs.org/wgbh/arthur/fern/poems/francine.html Francine's poem on the PBS Kids website] (archived page)
*[http://web.archive.org/web/19990508152232/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/arthur/fern/poems/arthur.html Arthur's poem on the PBS Kids website] (archived page)

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