The Late Night Zine Lament

Filksong
Song Title:	The Late Night Zine Lament
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Melody:	Wait A Minute Mr. Postman
Date:	1980s
Subject:	fanzine publishers
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The Late Night Zine Lament is a filk song, authors unknown set to the song "Wait A Minute Mr. Postman" It is written from the POV of readers, writers and artists anxiously awaiting the fanzines they purchased years before. As each chorus advances so do the years - one years stretches onto two, then three and eventually five.

Each paragraph calls on a different publisher who was slow in publishing their zines.

Wait a minute, Mr. Postman, Wa-a-a-ait, Mr. Postman.

Mr. Postman, would you look and see,

If there's a zine, a zine for me?

I sent my money in two years ago;

I thought that maybe it got lost in the snow.

In the beginning we were so naive,

In the editor we did believe.

She promised a zine full of Vulcan porn,

But D.T. Steiner left us all forlorn.

First Lori said a year, then two,

Now twenty or more will do.

I sent a SASE, she sent more ads.

The wait for The Weight is driving me mad.