Goose the Seuss
Perhaps the little boys and girls
were meant to flit like flying squirrels
and bag their messy words like lunch
past-tensified from Grinch to Grunch
to goosify a Suessian bunch...
may the farce be with us - ooommm!!!
I curse the verse,'green eggs and ham'
as boring as a tub of Spam
or Amy Winehouse home décor
Appropriately underscored
as artful as a Whoville whore
I am cursed with the verse
that is worse than the nurse
who gave birth in reverse
in the back of a hearse
yeeeaaarrrggghhh...
Leanne on June 21 2008 edit · delete Indeed, it seems the goose is loose
Look out for mounds of steaming Seuss
It tastes quite good in punkin pie
But please, try to di-versify.
Anstey on June 21 2008 edit · delete sadly though, old seuss is dead
cold as jello from foot to head
so mounds of him they do not steam
except perhaps in an ozzie dream
perhaps dear bill will take his place?
with smirkish grin and grinched up face
withthirty nine and one half foot pole
perhaps that guy can make us whole
Rws on June 21 2008 edit · delete was that fellow Topem Hat
upon whom mindless Barney spat
as Dora bored and Smurfette whored
and product lists made morons rich?
Jen on June 21 2008 edit · delete I will not try to De-Suessify!
I could not, would not even try!
Cats in hats, up in the air feet
Thing one and two, I'd like to meet.
The Grinch, Whoville and Sam I am
I do, I do, like green eggs and ham!
So, I'll keep hoping that someday
Writers and poets will shout and say,
I will not try to De-Raganify!
I could not, would not even try!
Rws on June 21 2008 edit · delete You are most welcome to enjoy the whimsy of Seuss, ma'am. But his style lends itself to satire so readily that I find lampooning it hard to resist.
Bill
Jen on June 21 2008 edit · delete I think I'm the only poet here who is a children's writer. I don't know where the other children's writers hang out so you'll all have to put up with a little bit of rhyming nonsense from me...like it or snot:P
P.S. Just be careful, rhymes disease is as catchy as a leaping flea. It can spread to you from me;)
Rws on June 22 2008 edit · delete I shall refrain from verses punny
as your nose grows cold and runny
Anstey on June 22 2008 edit · delete I shall not refrain a bit
i shall gargle, swish and swirl and spit
I shall not hold back, nor write in prose
I shall just rhyme until my brain just goes
Shan on June 24 2008 edit · delete I happen to like Seuss (and you Jen!) but do enjoy the fun of him too, and since I gave birth three days ago, I can't even join in as my brain is mush.
P.S. My son's favourite book is Green Eggs and Ham:P
----- Life is what happens while you wait for great things.
Leanne on June 25 2008 edit · delete To lampoon is, in fact, to flatter -- after all, nobody lampoons the unknown and irrelevant, do they?
More lampoonery, I say!
Jen on June 25 2008 edit · delete
Who goosed the Suess in Shakespeare's muse?
Who Suessed the monkeys loose?
With keyboards clacking
Forced rhymes smacking,
Who Suessified their muse?
Anstey on June 25 2008 edit · delete my muse is often soussed a bit
and smells of cheesed and moused up shit
thus my verse a badish crap
small ideas and inane pap
my muse, that bitch, is no Dr. Suess
in her knickers all gnarled and puce
hiding smudges tracked below
but not the stench of what.. ewww
you know.
