ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
The author hatches (or lays) an egg.
Children today,
When you've nothing to do,
You surf on the Web
And it's all that you do.
It's all that you do.
Click, click, click, click.
It can't be that healthy.
It could make you sick.
And what will you do,
I'd like you to tell,
If the power goes off
Or your on AOL?
Here's a suggestion
If that should occur.
Read a good book.
It's what they are fer.
Books are like Web sites
whose pages are printed.
They're free at the library
Not billed by the minute.
They come from a time,
If you'll believe this,
Before you were born,
When your parents were kids.
And though times were hard,
They weren't all that bad.
They had to read books.
They were all that they had!
Like Pokey Little Puppy,
A prince among hounds.
And Saggy Baggy Elephant,
Who should gain a few pounds.
If you're looking for one,
but can't seem to buy it.
You can probably get yours
At the Golden Books site.
And then in first grade,
Dick and Jane were assigned,
To teach us to read
And develop our minds.
Admittedly though,
There's something amiss
When people are talking
In words just like this:
"Run, Spot! Run!
See Spot run."
And this was somebody's
Idea of good fun?
Though hot in the fifties,
Later they bombed.
They're making a comeback.
They've just been dot commed.
And then we were saved
by a means quite obtuse
When Random House published
A doctor named Seuss
The Cat in the Hat,
Horton, the Who,
Yertle the Turtle
to name two times two.
If he'd have lived longer
And gotten the facts,
I'm sure we'd have heard
Of Net-surfing Zaks.
So if you're online
And need your Seuss fill.
Surf right on over
And visit Seussville
There are other pages
In the style that is Seuss's.
On the World Wide Web
It has multiple uses.
Take for instance,
An idea, quite frightening.
What if Seuss
Had done technical writing?
And stranger still
Would be the effect,
If the Doctor had written
The series Star Trek.
But before you go further,
You'd better log off.
Your eyes might go bad.
Your brain might go soft.
Besides, I've no doubt,
You're sure to find,
Dr. Seuss books
Are better offline.
