Occupying Sesame Street

Upon the Street, that seemed so sweet
The climate was changing attitudes were rearranging.
When the muppets, all non indiscrete, decided to occupy Sesame Street.
It started with Cookie Monster, who when smacking his lips
started his morning counting his chips.
He let out a roar after counting the stacks
4 out of 100 taken for the Sesame Street Tax.
He contacted Grover,
said, “Hey come on over.
My head I am scratching
with this plan I am hatching.
I won’t be a Stooge
The Cookie Tax is huge.
Please bring me a treat
for we will occupy of Sesame Street
So Grover came over
and brought some more friends
Bert and Ernie arrived in a Mercedes Benz
Big Bird stood outside
Of the Monster’s abode
For fear he’d collide
With the Monster’s commode.
And sitting by himself, alone on the couch
atop the plastic slipcovers, was Oscar the Grouch
Then suddenly arriving was Gladys the Cow
she arrived with a couple, denied their wedding vow .
For in walked Miss Piggy, all quite agog
for she was escorted by Kermit the Frog.
It appears that a law, which was carefully hidden
made marriage between a toad and a sow forever forbidden.
So each had their protest, each had their sign.
“Repeal the Cookie Tax.” “Let Frogs marry swine.”
But the ruler then spoke, but first finished his last cookie
“Three times I’ve been married, and often had nookie.
So that’s the way it should be,
that’s the way it’s been done
Blonde women all three,
I won’t get another, ‘til I tire of one.’
So the protest was over,
Jail time for muppets
for the leader would only accept
his own hand puppets.

The Sounds of Rhyming.

Today in Celebration of Dr. Seuss Birthday, the Seuss Estate released a rare collaboration of Dr. Seuss with an iconic duo. Here is the Sounds of Rhyming, by Simon, Garfunkel and Seuss:

Hello my friend Sam-I-Am 
Do you want Green Eggs and Ham?
I can make them in the pan for you
A slice of bacon and some liver too 
And the breakfast that is causing you such pain
Still remains 
Within the sounds of rhyming 

In restless dreams of cats in hats
Narrow men in ankle spats 
Near where Horton Found a Who 
One Fish, Two Fish, One Red One Blue 
When I said Green Eggs, I would not take a bite
He said I might 
Within the sounds that rhyming 

And then the Elephant he saw 
Ten thousand Who there, maybe more 
Who were talking without rhyming
Horton heard them without listening 
Turtles mountains for Yertle to use for a chair
High in the air 
Disturb the sound of rhyming 

"Sam-I-Am, I do not know 
How a mound of Turtles grow 
Hear my rhymes that I might get through 
From Mulberry Street where I made my debut”
But my words, had messages as well 
And echoed 
In the words a rhyming 

And the Egg the lazy Mayzie laid
On top of which the Elephant stayed
And the books spoke out with their meaning
In the words and the drawings 
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are forever in a children’s mind
no thoughts confined”
And whispered in the sounds of rhyming