The 12 Days Till Chrysalis

On the first day of Chrysalis Straczynski wrote for thee:
An ant in a Jaquon Eth tree.

On the second day of Chrysalis Straczynski wrote for thee:
Two Shadow ships,
And an ant in a Jaquon Eth tree.

On the third day of Chrysalis Straczynski wrote for thee:
Three hungry Feeders,
Two Shadow ships,
And an ant in a Jaquon Eth tree.

On the fourth day of Chrysalis Straczynski wrote for thee:
Four Minbari cruisers,
Three hungry Feeders,
Two Shadow ships,
And an ant in a Jaquon Eth tree.

On the fifth day of Chrysalis Straczynski wrote for thee:
Five Ba-by-lons!
Four Minbari cruisers,
Three hungry Feeders,
Two Shadow ships,
And an ant in a Jaquon Eth tree.

On the sixth day of Chrysalis Straczynski wrote for thee:
Six ducks a-laying,
Five Babylons!
Four Minbari cruisers,
Three hungry Feeders,
Two Shadow ships,
And an ant in a Jaquon Eth tree.

On the seveth day of Chrysalis Straczynski wrote for thee:
Seven Narn assassins,
Six ducks a-laying,
Five Babylons!
Four Minbari cruisers,
Three hungry Feeders,
Two Shadow ships,
And an ant in a Jaquon Eth tree.

On the eighth day of Chrysalis Straczynski wrote for thee:
Eight ships in holding
Seven Narn assassins
Six ducks a-laying,
Five Babylons!
Four Minbari cruisers,
Three hungry Feeders,
Two Shadow ships,
And an ant in a Jaquon Eth tree.

On the ninth day of Chrysalis Straczynski wrote for thee:
Nine Grey Minbari,
Eight ships in holding,
Seven Narn assassins,
Six ducks a-laying,
Five Babylons!
Four Minbari cruisers,
Three hungry Feeders,
Two Shadow ships,
And an ant in a Jaquon Eth tree.

On the tenth day of Chrysalis Straczynski wrote for thee:
Ten Psi-Cops scanning,
Nine Grey Minbari,
Eight ships in holding,
Seven Narn assassins,
Six ducks a-laying,
Five Babylons!
Four Minbari cruisers,
Three hungry Feeders,
Two Shadow ships,
Two Kawasakis,
And an ant in a Jaquon Eth tree.

On the eleventh day of Chrysalis Straczynski wrote for thee:
Eleventy Lurkers lurking,
Ten Psi-Cops scanning,
Nine Grey Minbari,
Eight ships in holding,
Seven Narn assassins,
Six ducks a-laying,
Five Babylons!
Four Minbari cruisers,
Three hungry Feeders,
Two Shadow ships,
Two Kawasakis,
And an ant in a Jaquon Eth tree.

On the twelfth day of Chrysalis Straczynski wrote for thee:
Twelve Kawasakis,
Eleventy Lurkers lurking,
Ten Psi-Cops scanning,
Nine Grey Minbari,
Eight ships in holding,
Seven Narn assassins,
Six ducks a-laying,
Five Babylons!
Four Minbari cruisers,
Three hungry Feeders,
Two Shadow ships,
And an ant in a Jaquon Eth tree.

Credits:

Verse 1: maria@mvuts.mv.att.com (-montalvo m.a.)
Verse 2: mbr2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Curious Of All Natures)
Verse 3: vegout@aol.com (Anne Stevenson)
Verse 4: lifer@w3eax.umd.edu  (Benjamin Schultz)
Verse 5: vegout@aol.com (Anne Stevenson)
Verse 6: hackbod@python.cs.orst.edu (Dianne Hackborn)
Verse 7: sorso@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Stephen Orso)
Verse 8: jcobley@usacs.rutgers.edu (Jamieson Cobleigh)
Verse 9: joint credit J Noe and J Cole
Verse 10:Adkins
Verse 11:joint credit Dainty and Zecca
Verse 12:mbr2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Curious Of All Natures)

abergman@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Aaron Bergman) points out:

The syllables are all screwed up. How about:

• Four Vorlon Ships,
• Three Mind Holes...

Paul Brinkley <brinkley@cs.utexas.edu>

• Twelve workers striking
• Eleven guys in holding
• Ten off-scale readings

• Seven Russian mantras

• Three Psi-cops
• Two TKOs

Are any Vorlon ships called cruisers? Someone, I recall, mentioned "Vorlon ships" for one of the verses; "Vorlon cruisers" has a good meter for a verse after five as well.

I dunno. For me, finding a good meter for verse four seems hard. I keep coming back to "four Centauri studs", and the psychological implications of that are slowing me down. :)

Twelve drummers drumming
Eleven pipers piping
Ten lords a-leaping
Nine ladies waiting
Eight maids a-milking
Seven swans a-swimming
Six geese a-laying
Five golden rings
Four calling birds
Three French hens
Two turtledoves
A partridge in a pear tree

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