To Dr. Seuss

Theodore Geissel, friend of my youth
provider of wisdom, laughter and truth

Yertle the Turtle, the Cat in the Hat
The Grinch and the Lorax and creatures like that

all taught me lessons I'll never forget
and I thank the good doc I ain't forgotten them yet

Strangely named felines and odd colored fishes
If I ran the circus and other fun wishes

they led me to wonder about what I would be
when I got much older like a hundred and three

Would I ever like Green Eggs and Ham
Would I ever dislike that Sam I Am?

I found that the world was a funnier place
And his stories put many a smile on my face

And now I'm grown up and have kids of my own
and I read the good doc when I have them at home

and pass on the lessons I learned at his knee
though I'm not that much older just thirty and three