Dr. Geisel Thank You Please
Doctor Geisel I presume?
On a bookshelf in my room?
Would you, could you, please do tell,
How you're able to spell so well?
Your stories intrigue both young and old.
Whether they're read or whether they're told.
Gee sir, please sir, help me see,
Satisfy my curiosity.
Doctor Geisel is it true,
The Cat in Hat was really you?
Some say yes and some say not,
I guess to me it's just a thought.
My first book of yours was Green Eggs and Ham,
Green Eggs and Ham and Sam I Am.
In all my life I've never seen,
Eggs and Ham that were green.
Then there's Horton and the Who's,
I've often wondered about them too.
Surely, the Who's that Horton knew,
Weren't The Grinch's Who-ville Who's?
Did Horton really hatch an egg?
Or were you just pulling our leg?
How can an Elephant sit so well,
On an egg and not break the shell?
And what of the Grinch, that grumbling stooge?
Some say he looked like Ebeneezer Scrooge.
Was that Boris Karloff's voice we heard?
Somethings the Grinch did were quite absurd.
That poor max, his faithful friend,
Whatever happened to him in the end?
You would have liked Jim Carey in green,
Ron Howard made him believably mean.
Dr. Geisel you were ahead of your time.
I watched the Lorax each year in prime time.
I liked his concern for the Truffula trees,
Nothing was worth old Once-ler's Thneed.
Now Marvin K. Mooney got a reprieve,
How many times was he asked to leave?
Could Marvin have been a political jest?
Was he Mr. Nixon's Watergate guest?
Oh Dr. Geisel we all love your stories.
Their poetic rhymes and sweet allegories.
Children find all of them simple and fun,
Yet they pose a challenge for everyone.
Dr. Geisel, thank you please,
For all your character's memories.
I'm sure one day they'll reveal hidden truths,
About ourselves and that old Dr. Seuss.
Copyright © July 2010
Kevin Mooney
kmm001
072510
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