Andrew Mark Sauerwein

My second setting of Grace Andrews' poetry.  This one is a zany acrostic poem entitled "ABC" that involves a visitor from the future, a banana, and world domination.  The action is presented in a recitative.  The harmony features a different chord for each of the 26 lines of text, including harmony based on all 24 major and minor triads.

Lyrics:

All he said was, “I’m

Back from the future and I

Can prove it.”

Did he think I needed

Evidence?

Frankly, being an avid

Geek when your talking Doctor Who or Jules Verne,

How could I not believe

In time travel?

Just as I was offering him a

Kumquat,

Lithely he slipped through the door and behind

Me,

Not taking the kumquat

Opening the kitchen door

Peeling a banana

Quietly chomping precisely to the middle of it.

“Really,” he says,

“Science fiction is more like fact

Than you would like to believe.

Under the fantasy of

Verne and

Who,

X-men and

Yoda, lie

Zealous, earnest plots for world domination.”