The feud with no truce? The saga of old Dr. Seuss

I’ll tell you, kids, what I would do, if I were queen and ran the zoo!

If I controlled the whole dang show. Hoo boy the places I would go!

I’d make the virus vanish now! I’d kill that villain — oof! kapow!

And if I were the lady king? I’d turn the winter into spring!

And then I’d hop upon a plane to Mali, China or Bahrain!

I’d go to England, go to France. I’d go there in my underpants!

I’m kidding, kids, and I digress. Those aren’t the things we must address

The biggest issue on the globe? The one we must dissect and probe?

The thing that’s set the world on fire? The thing that’s got us in the mire?

The feud for which there is no truce? The saga of old Dr. Seuss.

First, let’s review this frightful fight that’s stoked the war of left and right

The truth begins with his estate — they said not all his works are great.

They did not mean that Christmas grinch whose face is in a constant pinch

They did not cite that rhyming cat, the one who wears the giant hat.

They did not mean green eggs and ham — I’m getting to my point, I am!

They said that they’ll no longer print, six books for which they now repent.

Six books that stigmatize some folks. That turn them into types and jokes

Six books of which you’d never heard! Of which you could not quote a word!

They said those books can cause real pain. And still the right wing must complain!

They say that there’s no racist harm. They shake their fists with faux alarm!

Cry, “Cancel culture’s run amok! “The woke folk really, truly suck!

“They’ll take our guns, they’ll take our books! “They’re fascists! Vandals! Left-wing crooks!”

But, kids, I’m here to give the facts. Those books, they do not face the ax

They are not victims of a purge. So let us stop the freespeech dirge.

They’ve not been hid with keys and locks! No matter what you hear from Fox!

No, no one took them from your house! No matter how the Fox folks grouse!

No, no one took them from your car! They did not take them from your bar!

They did not take them from the shops! They did not send the cancel cops!

So stop this phony moan and scare. They did not ban them anywhere!

Those books weren’t burned! They weren’t destroyed! So why are some folks so annoyed?

Because they like performing rage upon the “cancel culture” sage.

You’d think that there’s no other news. No other cause to blow a fuse

No climate change, no needy poor (The real news can be such a bore.)

Evictions! Health care? COVID dead? Let’s talk about Potato Head!

You heard that he’s been canceled too? Well, kids, that simply isn’t true.

Besides, this feud is good for biz It really, truly, sadly is!

Those books are selling very fast. Much quicker than in all the past.

And as for Seuss, his work lives on. The best of Seuss is far from gone

But times they change, and so must we. The more we live, the more we see.

We see some books can harm and hurtin subtle ways and more overt

And books that once lookin a newer day.

His work is from a different time. He did not mean it as a crime

But in this time there’s no excuse, for certain books by Dr. Seuss.