Here is Vikram Madan reading, then singing the poem FIFTY UKELELES. 

Good art is like the The Telephone Game. It gets passed along and passed along, getting changed and remade in between different people, and inspiring new art. Mr. Madan wrote, illustrated, read, then sang a poem. It changed each time.

Gather some friends to play the Telephone Game with you. Here are two ways.

"Improvization" or "improv" means doing something without a lot of preparation. In theatre, it often means acting out a story without a script. 

Ask someone to be your scene partner. Together, improv the first stanza. One of you is selling ukeleles, the other is buying them.

Here are Vikram Madan's words to inspire your improv:

I bought fifty ukeleles

At the local flea bazaar

For I wanna wanna wanna 

Be a ukelele star.

That first improv was the beginning of the story.

This second  improv is from the end of the story.

Look at the picture of Vikram Madan's face as he sings the line:

 Why oh why did I not notice

that none of them has strings? 

How does he feel?

What is he thinking, beyond the words written?

What might he do because of this feeling?

Improvise a second scene that brings some of those ideas and feelings to life with your scene partner. You may create more than one.