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WON’T WEAR MY MAMA’S MUMU

By Bill Reinman, Oakdale, CA

 

I won’t wear my mama’s mumu

‘cause my hula doesn’t show.

Inside that great big mumu

My hips go to and fro

but outside that big mumu

you can’t see where they go.

Mama and her mumu

both are double-wide

Sis and I in the mumu

we hula side by side

but it’s not the same

as the solo game

so neither one is happy

in the great big double-wide.

Now watch that big wide mumu

with big wide Mama inside.

That’s a first-rate hula

our loving family’s pride

But--

I won’t wear Mama’s mumu

‘cause my hula doesn’t show!


The Poetic Dance Theater Company frolic in the background while three hula dancers try to dance in Mama's mumu
Free from Mama's Mumu, Brazil shows us what she can do for her own hula.
Assistant MC, Judy Cheung, read this comic piece in performance
Bill Reinman reads his Grand Prize Winning Poem at the podium of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor's Florence Gould Theater
Bill Reinman takes his bow with the dancers. "You girls sure had a lot of fun with this one!" he commented.