March 2nd – A Special Day
To Dr. Seuss (and Randel McGee)
By Groark the dragon
(originally written for March 2, ’99)
Today is March 2nd. Today is the day,
That we throw up our hands and we all shout hooray!
So why do we cheer? Don’t you know, silly goose?
It’s the day that we honor our friend, Dr. Seuss.
If You don’t know the Doctor,
What a laugh! What a crock!
Where have you been living? Down under a rock?
Oh, he’s not a Dr. that sews cuts with stitches
Or rubs smelly crèmes on the place where it itches.
He doesn’t do research in a hospital lab.
Or tell you how you can lose inches of flab.
Oh no! He’s the Dr. that makes us all laugh.
He writes stories that are quite a laugh and a half!
He makes up strange creatures and hilarious rhymes.
When reading his books, it’s the best of all times!
“To think that I saw it on Mulberry Street”
is the very first children’s book he did complete.
But there are way more! You have seen them at school!
Like “On Beyond Zebra” amd McElligot’s Pool”
Your friends and your fam’ly will have a treat when you
Add “Green Eggs and Ham” to your reading menu.
Now let’s look at the book of “The Cat in the Hat”
They recently made a movie of that.
The book was the best! It was way out of sight!
But the movie just didn’t get the story quite right!
I guess that it’s true when at movies you look.
It’s really much better when you read the book.
But there is another man born on this day,
Who plays with his words and makes us shout Hooray!
March 2nd’s the birthday of Seuss, don’t you see,
But it’s also the birthday of Randel McGee.
So we honor two men who write stories and poems
That make us all laugh and now you all know ‘em.
So three cheers for the stories that we’ll all hear today!
Let’s throw up our hands and let’s all shout hooray!
The end
McGee, you’re my right-hand man! I love ya’ like a brother! So, can I borrow $20?
Here’s McGee in the role of Li’l Randy:
In't he cute!
