"In the pursuit of virtue, don't be afraid to overtake your teacher."
"Young people should not be taken lightly. How do you know that they will not one day be better than you are now?"

--Confucius

"True poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."

-- Socrates

You laugh because I'm different, I laugh because you're the same.


Sunday, October 23, 2011

Thorton Hears a Coo

Author's Note:
This is kind of a different take on Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who if you haven't figured that out yet.

Kanga-jacks and lion-phants
All playing in the jungle
Until a small mon-ger
Stirred up a bungle

He says he can hear it
A soft coo on a spack
Though Ms. Kanga-Jack
No, she does not like that

Ms. Kanga-Jack tells
 him to be quiet
She says shut his mouth
Before he starts a riot

Though that mon-ger
Knows just what he heard
The soft coo of a fairy
Or a call from a bird

He leans on in closer
Listening to the spack
Maybe there's a whole 'nother world
Of clucks that'll quack

Then it all starts
It happens so quickly
Everyone's laughing
So judgmentally prickly

Though that doesn't stop Joe
The mon-ger I mentioned
But what would he say
What if he's questioned

Joe looks at the lady
And stares her right in the eye
And says if she can't except him
Well then lady good bye

He can make a good home
A great home for that spack
He'll make up a name
He'll name it up Mack

Maybe there's a person
Or three, even ten
What if they're people
What if they're hens

So many questions
Soar right through his mind
As he walks right along
He stops and says hi

She goes hopping toward Joe,
Ms. Kanga- Jack
To ask him if it's real
The thing on the spack

Joe says yes of course
He couldn't dare lie
So he shared his great tale
With brief little sighs

With a huff and puff
He chugged right along
And all the little things
Sang a great song

Then Ms. Kanga-Jack
She heard it so clear
She let out a slight laugh
Though only slight out of fear

Now Joe is a ten
On scale ten to zero
So this great ol' mon-ger
Is now a great hero

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