Smeágol’s True Thoughts

By Dannielle Green

There really is no way to express how I feel,

Unless you cut me open like a fish,

as Trevor (Fyedka) suggested.

But I will do my best.

I am so very grateful for drama,

because it’s allowed me to be the goofball

and still partially hidden actress that I really am.

It’s allowed me to learn and adjust into a personality

that I never knew about (stupid, blinding certain people!!!).

I have made so many real, true friends in drama,

most of them, wait, none of them I knew before!

Kailee, Jon, Suki, O’Brien, Dani, Maureen, Ryan, Lizi…

I love you guys so much, there is no measure of it.

I don’t know where I would be if I hadn’t been in drama.

I wouldn’t be who I am now,

I probably wouldn’t even remember how to talk to people.

My greatest love, thanks, love and admiration to Ms. Canzone,

All my friends, and all my classmates,

For making 7^th grade, by far, the absolute best year of my entire life.

Kosher Livin’

By Dani Mandley

Ah, advanced drama, what a lovely place.

That blithely morbid smile upon Ms. Canzone’s face.

Yes, I’ll never forget the shrieking at our beloved “Airy!!”

I’ll remember all the papas, of which I was most hairy.

And Tevye’s dance, just like a Jewish strip tease…

He got a lot of “Whooos!” and the audience he did please.

I’ll miss the loving feeling when Ms. Canzone threatened to club me,

And all our tortured faces, ah, they were quite lovely.

I saw a Rabbi curtsey, we all saw Mordcha fall,

But out of all that chaos I’ll miss kosher livin’ most of all.

I messed up the dance moves, I really think I stunk.

But when I left the show that day, I was full of kosher funk.

And dressing like a man was no new thing to me,

But unlike O’Brien, I wasn’t all that sexy.

We wore a lot of makeup, we sang a lot of songs,

I’ll miss all of our jingles about our blessed thongs.

And all the many catch phrases like “Mazeltov”, “Mew!”, and “twa”,

I’m gonna miss the 8^th graders blah de blah de blah,

I cherished Ms. Canzone’s screeching and all the threats I got.

And to all you other Drama geeks, I love you guys a lot!!!

Now that it all has ended, we let the curtain fall.

But out of all that chaos I’ll miss kosher-livin’ most of all.

Ms. Canzone Syndrome

By Sarah Cammann

Ms. Canzone Syndrome, good, bad, don't quite know what it is,
But it comes with "AIRY"; I love you's and her emotional pop quiz.
Yet she taught us how to act and we all are happy to know
That on stage our hard work was able to show.

I will never forget the good friends I met
This year in advanced drama where Ms. Canzone let
Us see a new world of theater and lights
Dreaming of "Fiddler" songs when we slept at night.

As we grew together each day Ms. Canzone would get what she wanted
Even if in our dreams we were haunted
It's the MCS that's all, don't fret
It won't harm you, eat you, and club you but yet
We don't know what it is, it's not perfectly clear,
You can't understand even after you've been with her a year

Now I can't be thankful enough for I have had so much fun
She's like another Mom, and would make a Diet Coke run.
We will miss her a lot and
Remember what she taught,
No one else could take her place
Heck, I think we have all come down with a case!