Tonight, many folks will be enthralled, no doubt ...

For a beautiful lady will be entertaining amidst shouts

As Bobby Caldwell and his band play some tunes ...

Vanessa Williams will be up front singing so true ...



An event I shall have to miss even though I won

For at least twice I got thru to the station at once

When they played the Secret Song and I dialed

But, unfortunately, missed being 19 by many miles



For when I got thru - both times I was number five

And all the rest of the times, I wasn't even live ...

But that's okay ... I got to see her the other night

Singing with Pavarotti ... she was so very bright



A gorgeous lady who well-deserved the crown

And title of Miss America ... in a beautiful gown

But that was a few years ago ... she's now even more

Luscious than she was then ... and settling the score



- Tristram



(c) Christopher W. Thomas

3:15pm Friday, Dec. 11th, 1998