Olga from Volga

Here's the thing: I've been working for a while on "E-DATE - THE MUSICAL", and now I am on a little break from working on it before getting into E-DATING PROJECT at Strasberg Institute - a class that I teach will result in a show directed by Gia Forakis after I develop the text with the students.

yeah, two different E-Date projects (instead of a real e-date :)

So tonight I feel like posting the lyrics for my favorite song: "Olga from Volga" based on a real e-letter that my friend James got from a Russian Olga (not from the Volga, that's my rhyme:). Just to let people know that it existed before the Strasberg project. It's my blog-copyrighting thing...

BEAUTIFUL BUT LONELY AND TIRED
IN AN ENGLISH THAT'S SURELY A RIOT
OLGA FROM THE VOLGA
REGION WRITES TO ME
HEY JIMMY
"Hello! How You today?
I hope that all at you
Is good. I write to You
because I did not receive letters.
Why not write? What is it what happens?
I not do not need understand
You not want more with me
To communicate, friend?
I hope, that the reason that You are
simply borrowed on work. I shall wait
for Your letter. I hope,
that You will write to me soon,
invite me to Cancun,
Barbados or Miami Florida
I need nice place to rest and give you love
I am and always be your little dove
I sign below forever yours, Olga
From the Volga
Region in Russia"

OLGA FROM THE VOLGA
OH HOW I LOVE TO READ THE WORDS YOU SAY
MY LITTLE DOVE
TOO BAD YOU LIVE 10,000 MILES AWAY.

YOUR LOVING EMAILS TRULY COME DEEP FROM YOUR HEART.
YOUR CHOICE OF WORDS, WHAT CAN I SAY, A WORK OF ART.
I WON'T FORGET YOUR LETTER'S FINAL PART:
“ME WANT NEW LIFE WITH YOU TOGETHER START.”
MY LITTLE DOVE, YOU ARE A WORK
A WORK OF ART.

OLGA FROM THE VOLGA
WHERE ALL THIS LEADS, I CANNOT TELL.
MAYBE SOMEDAY I'LL TAKE YOUR HAND
RIGHT TO A CLASS IN ESL.

DEAR OLGA, TELL YOUR SISTER DRUSHKA
I'M SAD SHE LOST HER JOB AND HAS NO HOPE,
AND TELL MAMA AND BABUSHKA
I'M SORRY 'BOUT THE WATER DAMAGE TO THEIR HOME.

DEAR OLGA FROM THE VOLGA
IT BREAKS MY HEART TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR DISCOMFORT
BUT HONEY PLEASE BE PATIENT
FOR I ALSO HAVE TO LEND MY FULL SUPPORT
TO GORGEOUS TATIANA FROM UKRAINE
AND LOVELY LILIANA FROM COUNTRYSIDE IN SPAIN
AND OXANA FROM LATVIA, CARMEN FROM ROMANIA
AND OLGA - YES, ANOTHER OLGA - FROM LITHUANIA.

OH OLGA FROM THE VOLGA SHORE
YOU'LL ALWAYS BE MY SWEET
LIT' DOVE WHO TRIED TO MEET
BUT WANTED SO MUCH MORE.