Zip Elaine Stritch

I've interviewed Pablo Picasso
And a countess named DeFrazo
I've interviewed the great Stravinsky
But my greatest achievement
Was the interview I had
With the star who worked for Minsky!

I met her at the Yankee Clipper
And she didn't unzip one zipper
I said:
"Miss Lee, you are such an artist
Tell me why you never miss
What do you think of while you work?"
And she said:
"While I work my thoughts go something like this:"


Zip! Walter Lippmann wasn't brilliant today
Zip! Will Saroyan ever write a great play?
Zip! I was reading Schopenhauer last night
Zip! And I think that Schopenhauer was right!

I don't wanna see Zarina
I don't wanna meet Cobina
Zip! I'm an intellectual!