The Good Dr. Seuss

My first favorite poet

was Dr. Seuss.

He was fast and loose

with his rhymes

most of the time

whether he wrote about

a cat in a hat

or a big-hearted moose.

He was never abstruse

or obtuse

though he often seemed

sillier than a goose.

I once heard someone say

that he only wrote nonsense

but I thought she was dense

to give such offense

hence

I write this poem

in his defense

at the expense

of her pretense.

Perhaps she was chartreuse

with envy that she

could not produce

a body of work so profuse

or diffuse

as that of the

good Dr. Seuss! - Jeff Barnes