Nineteen hundred and sixty-three

Saturday morning symphony

Peanut butter sandwiches

Looney Tunes and jam

“What’s up Doc” and Yosemite Sam

Watercolour oasis in a Puccini dessert

Peter and the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Verdi, Rossini, The Bunny of Seville

racing to the Overture of William Tell

Frantic crazy whirlwind clarinet

Tasmanian Devil, string quartet

Tweety Bird, Road Runner, Bolero, Ravel

Daffy Duck grimaces “You’re deth-picable”

Aaron Copland composes Wile E. Coyote

Import Acme Manufacture Company

Elmer Fudd’s buckshot bassoon

Dynamite, kettle drums, boom, boom, ka-boom

Tiptoeing through Nocturne forests

“Be vewy vewy quiet, I’m huntin’ wabbits”

Bach, Beethoven and blunderbusses

Sylvester, Schubert and Speedy Gonzales

Also Sprach Zarathustra

“Sufferin’ succotash” John Philip Souza

“Of coise, you realize dat dis means war”

With a Xylophone zany symphonic score

Foghorn Leghorn, Erik Satie

Liszt and Mahler and Merrie Melodies

Prokoviev, Brahms, cartoon pandemonium

Marvin the Martian, Glockenspiel Schumann

“I tawt I taw a puddy tat!”

Did Mel Blanc really say all that

Porky Pig ends this poetic baroque

“Th-th-th-th-That’s all, folks!”