Mourning
genius.
What if Jim Henson had lived?
What would The Muppets be up to?
Sesame Street is evolving and
enveloping
More and more of the multicultural
But the pizzazz and bedazzlement just
is not there.
Forgetful Jones and Oscar the Grouch
just aren’t
As silly and spontaneous as before.
The world according to Einstein:
Would he have still remained detached
From the conflicts in Israel and
Palestine?
Are we grown enough to not make
ultimatums
Either it is the Theory of Relativity
or
None of the above if political ranting
is involved?
Dr. Seuss is still celebrated, but the
breadth is limited:
How much more green eggs and ham can
we consume
Without once pondering with our “puzzlers”
about the
Frontiers of imagination that have
been frozen in time
With the passing of the creators of
sheer creative light?
There must be a way to preserve the
talent that gets
Wasted when we lose a force of
intellectual power.
In some disconcerting way we get
pulled away from
A formidable finishing line and sent
to the front of the
Classroom to whine and twine and then rewind
And begin the construction of the
pendulum from
Scraps and remembrances alone.
Like the child lost in his late
mother’s closet
Trying to keep the scent from
disappearing forever,
Whether
it is Maugham or Proust or we.
Originally released on Sunday, June
12, 2011 by Alverston & Associates (we are because of Steve Jobs).
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