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12/17/2025

Frybread Lyrics

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Fry Bread by Marc Frucht.

(Ch)Fry bread, frybread, make me some frybread
How can you be my Nana if you won’t make me frybread.
Frybread, frybread, make me some frybread,
How can you be a Nana if you won’t make some frybread.

Make me some frybread, chop up some peppers,
Make up some frybread- add some beans and cheese
How ’bout some frybread ‘n lettuce n’ tomatoes
Make it any kind of bread but make some fry bread please.

(ch)

I’ll herd the sheep for you I’ll chop the wood.
I’ll mud the roof if you’ll only make frybread
I’ll sweep the floor auntie, I promise I’ll be good.
I’ll learn a song for you but please make some fry bread.

(ch)

Wheat flour or white flour
Use any kind of flour
Heck even Jewish rye flour
But make some frybread please.

(chorus, repeat and fade…)

The chords are simply C, F and G.

Hear the MP3 here:

https://www.reverbnation.com/kidssongs/song/25819209-frybread-by-marco-capelli-frucht

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09/06/2025

Journal Poem 62 by Marc Frucht

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Here is the 62nd Journal Poem from Volume 2 of “Journal Poems,” printed as a very large Chap Book.

Journal Poem 62

Seamus is a famous name

No, I mean it is, but
That’s not why I just wrote that.
I wrote it simply
Simply because it rhymes.

Name us
Famous
Seamus

But of course
Poly famous is Poseidon’s kid.
Probably a distant cousin
Of Famous Amos
The God of Cookie Dough

Hark hark, the Lark
It’s getting dark around here.

Merger madness, Minneapolis and Milwaukee
Kresge and Kmart, Bush and Blair

And believe it or don’t.
He invented the Duncan & Porter
Anti-Imperialism Yo-Yo

“Where have all the average people gone.”
— Roger Miller

April 12th 1989
Big Day. Big River.

Sirop Saveur Noisette

Have you new brake shoes
Or are you too broke
To BUY shoes?

Are your tires tired,
Or maybe they’re sticky stirring
Wheels in the wind.

Did your rear view mirror fall off
Or can you still reflect?

When it all hits too close to home
When the drug is so big it’s
Surrounding you…
As the machine eats 2/3 of your soul
And since everyone except you

Seems so insanely into their
Disconnected sanity
Insisting that if you’ll only
Salute Big Brother
All will play out as it should.

When the world is ordering up anew,
As well – all of Alexandria
Begins imploding in a burn
Like a gigantic sucking, swirling sinkhole –
You begin to think that Metaphor
Is all that’s left

They’re going to keep sticking this pig
Until there’s no blood left to suck.

[x] Hear the same voiced in at: https://soundcloud.com/atizine/journalpoem62

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08/07/2025

Rick Dees Can’t Dance, a poem

Filed under: Academic,Humor,Mundane Or Sublime,Music and Stuff,Pop Culture — admin @ 7:48 am

Black Coffee and Earthen Art…
Dylan Dylan, says the Lamp,
ok, the lamp wants some Dylan…

# Poetry, Spoken Word…

https://soundcloud.com/atizine/rick-dees-cant-dance-a-poem-by-marco

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07/25/2025

JournAl Pome 40 – by mArco

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JournAl Pome 40 – by mArco

DedicAted to LoneTree

AmericAn Academy of Achievement

FArmers MArket

MAtrix tuners Are the sAme compAny as OvAtion

Absolutely AppropriAte thAt cAndidAte Dole cAmpAigned
At the ACME Screw compAny in WheAton Illinois.

Oh wAit, the jock wAnts his quArterbAck?

AmAAAzingly ironic thAt the CAmpbell Soup Co.,
owns the VlAssic Pickle PlAnt now.

Ah, sTILl Further, my microbus. A ’76. Miss thAt old cAr!

Garden Tonic: Red And Green Pepper, PArsley, CArrot, SpirulinA, Ginger.

DREAM: A Song. “You gottA use your plAnet wisely.”
I’m in A limo picking up hitch hikers.
I chArter A city bus with 50 dollAr bills.
It turns Around And picks up
A bunch of teenAgers
on their wAy to
A rock concert. Suddenly free to get in.

I wAke up going in.

POEM START: They wouldn’t let me visit you ClAyton
They wouldn’t let me visit you…

WhAt is the sound of one world dying?

If A world died, would it hAppen during peoples’ lifetimes
Or in between?

My wife sAys there IS no in between.

Ice Cube’s in Al’s Hummer

ClAssicAl guitar in A gArden cAfe
Nothing cAn Alter my newest course

Nodding in And out whenever Anyone clApped
Or A voice got dynAmic.

Wondering if Anyone in Wisconsin or NY
Remembers whAT wAmpum comes from.

If HArley went vegAn, hipster or something
would they chAnge their nAme to bArley dAvidson?

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journal poem 47 – by marco frucht

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journal poem 47 – marco

Plywood windows
And Tyvek

It takes two semesters at a college to find out
An entire state is just too expensive
For a middle class person all by himself.

A great place to grow up
Just as great to retire in
But to make it? Oy!

Amway
Making the world safe for
Cleaning products

So they say an Avocado is 120 calories
And a grapefruit is 52.
Can a small bag of peanuts be about the same?

Strange parody: I compose words
To Django Reinhardt’s instrumental,
“Dapne.”

Here’s just a smidgeon:

Daphne, you do me wrong.
Daphne, oh daphne
I sing you this song
Because, well yes, because
you did me so badly,
I loved you so madly
But you slighted and spited and smote me so,
Maybe I’ll just sing along
Another
Some body named Daphne
Done me wrong song.

Does the phrase, “Hindsight is 20/20” hold up
If you’re nearsighted?
And Ashley Montagu will teach you how to curse.

Now I must ask, is Phemus famous or just well regarded?

Were you there when Red Auerbach told K.C. Jones,
“Think Yiddish, dress British.”

10 for i = 1-10
20 next i
30 go to journal poem #48

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01/11/2025

Journal Poem #55 – from Volume 2 of the upcoming Journal Poems

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Journal Poem #55
from JournalPoems Volume 2.

Here I sit pensive, dark and dreary
In a restaurant so expensive

Airplane mode
Typing haikuish Poem
Sitting in window seat
Awaiting land.

So I told the pizza chef, listen I know you’re still trying
To develop the world’s greatest sourdough crust
But you’re not quite there.

At the risk of sounding offensive
I must tell you,
This dough just taste
Like Matzos without the salt.

He just smiled and said, old friend:
Let me remind you, since you’re the one who told me
Dale Carnegie was quoted saying,
“This isn’t a bagel, it’s a white bread with a hole.”

And it’s not his fault.

We all want a better car
A better car, we all want a better car
Isn’t it just a little offensive
We here in America
Unhappy with the car we have

We all want a better fone
A better fone than the one we have
It’s a bit much, we, here unhappy
With the fone we own

We all want a better house
House
House
Isn’t it wild
We, so unhappy with the house we got

A better job?
Yeah, we all want a better job
Want, want, want,
Think we need, so unhappy
With the job we keep

What we really want
and need,
And deserve?
Simply a better life.

https://www.reverbnation.com/marcfruchtpoet

https://soundcloud.com/atizine/journal-poem-21-frybread

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12/28/2024

Megan Thee Songwriter — a poem

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Megan Thee Songwriter
a poem
by marco

I’m writing a song called Megan Moroney

It goes like this.

You’all made her cowrite the songs she wrote
She got some extra hits anyhow

Plus she made you look stupider than you did her.

You can’t hold down a real writer can ya?

Unfortunately it’s the umpteenth
“Look what they done to my song ma…”

But she’ll win out
because this really is the century one person will write a song
instead of 5 cowriters, 4 ghost writers, 3 composers, 2 recomposers
and a Partridge in a school bus.

January 2025
Mystic, Conn.

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12/01/2024

Blogging A Wild Dream:

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WILD DREAM:
Bean and Tea Leaf hanging out with several people crewing a bus n truck retrospective of Jesse Ed Davis’ life in music.
Eddie Van Halen and John Cougar walk in and I say hello.

No big thing for some reason. Eddie asks me which of the herbal teas are truly herbal and I have to tell him honestly almost none.
The Majestic Mint is the only one that has no sugar and no caffeine.
John Cougar doesn’t know who I am so Eddie has to explain. One of the most underrated so and so, never got a break because of his kiss-no-one’s-ass attitude.
Oh.
Well nice to meet you then.
Yeah, likewise, I say unenthusiastically. He asks me if I use 9s or 10s and what picks I’m into.
Ernie Ball 11s I tell him and only only only ones that Jimi Dunlop makes.

www.jimdunlop.com

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11/24/2024

FIELD RECORDING: Learning the Uke. Merry Minuet 2024-11-24

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Here’s my newest upload, recorded it this afternoon at the beach.

Teaching myself ukelele the past 2 weeks.

It. has. been. so. much. fun!

Epiphone Les Paul Ukelele at the beach

https://soundcloud.com/atizine/field-recording-learning-the

I’m missing two of this cover’s chords and I still get tripped up trying to quickly form a chord on the uke but it was a guitar chord if you know what I mean.

I’m quite surprised, astonished maybe, at how quickly it’s coming together though.

Here, see what I mean.

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11/27/2023

Almost Famous – A Movie and a Musical and a Way to Be.

Filed under: Music and Stuff,News,Pop Culture,Tech,Uncategorized — Tags: Cameron Crowe, Eugene O'Neill, Marco Frucht — admin @ 4:49 am

Marco Frucht pictured here with Cameron Crowe at Blue Gene’s Pub, National Theater Institute, Waterford, Conn. 18nov23

Corny joke alert:

— So yesterday I met Cameron Crowe
— Oh I know that name, what’s he famous for?
— Almost Famous
— Oh, what’s he almost famous for?

One morning I was telling a 7th grade class about how I used to sell cassettes of my music out of a van while busking on street corners all over the U.S. I found an old 4-track cassette tape the other day with early masters, and a girl raises her hand and says, “what’s a cassette tape?” And a boy goes, “Oh my dad has those, it’s like a VHS tape with the two little spinners but they’re smaller,” and she asks “what’s a VHS tape?” Not picking on her. I polled the class right away and there were only two other children besides that boy and myself. Everyone else had no idea what either of those two old pieces of technology are/were.

Last week Cameron Crowe and Tom Kitt were here at the O’Neill reworking their B’way production of Cameron’s movie “Almost Famous.”

It was so neat to meet Cameron and see Tom again. He were here a few years ago workshoping his play “Superhero.”

Even more neat was seeing some of their work as a staged reading with Equity actors and production crew. I have a good feeling about this play and it’s journey back to Broadway and everywhere else it will go. I sure do hope it gets licensed for High School productions and then Little Steven’s TeachRock.org group can include it in curriculum, right?

https://www.playbill.com/article/tom-kitt-and-cameron-crowe-to-redevelop-almost-famous-at-eugene-oneill-theater-center