An Ode to Dr. Seuss

In a world so dull and gray. We need to put the rainbow back in our day.

Fun is the one. The fun just barely has begun!

Red feet, green feet, feet feet feet. Gives me such giggles to even repeat. How many feet do you meet in a week? A question odd to ask, about feet. A lesson on being odd, indeed. That should be lesson number one, isn’t this neat?

Did Horton just hear a Who? Do goldfish swim in glue?

How about playing in a big pool full of marshmallows in socks. Let’s play in a pool of peach Jello, and invite the whole block!

No? You don’t want to play? Why are you so gloomy and gray? There is some fun out on the bay.

Speak up! Speak out! You don’t have to whisper, just shout!

We can eat vanilla cake in a tree full of trout. Hang upside down until we both black out.

We can sing lots of karaoke songs underwater. We can also invite Uncle Walter.

Life is too short to be all grown up. Let’s brush our teeth with vodka and get very very drunk.

What do you say? It’s okay to be silly, yay!

Be strange, be weird! Be senseless and weird and let your cat grow a beard.

By Melissa Ziegenhorn

This is what the poem’s all about! Having fun is so in, and normal is not.

Still being dull and gray? Is there hope that you will play?

Maybe? Please?

We need to remember how it was to play. Play and play and never call it a day.

Never, never grow up. Nope, never ever buttercup!

If you are going to be a Grinch then just stay! Go your own way. You are no fun anyway.

Bye-Bye, have a nice day.