AgeBelly Birthday Birds
Remembering Dr. Seuss's story
"Happy Birthday to You"
(I wish I could do what they do in Katroo)

Large AgeBelly Birthday Birds have been known to
Bestow fine AgeBellies outside of Katroo,
For the birthdays these AgeBelly Birds celebrate
Also advertise ages some people misstate.

So, to no one's surprise, at their recent convention
Bushie's age was the subject of much apprehension.
He's not only mumbling with far less coherence,
But they've noted a change in his outward appearance.

His leer's not as eerie, in fact he looks haggard,
Where a few years ago he'd have strutted and swaggered.
Back in two thousand with that juvenile face.
His dissolute youth had left nary a trace.
But having passed sixty he's peaked and drawn.
His zippedy-doo-dah, like Cheney's, is gone.

Age affects ev'ryone some way or other.
Just look what AgeBellies have done for his mother.
And a president's age should reflect how it's going
Irregardless of how he's got Tony Snow crowing.

So these AgeBelly Birthday Birds feel we've been cheated
When instead of increasing Bushie's belly's depleted,
For he's aging so fast these birds can't intervene
And fear we could suffer a Bush sight unseen.

Six years of Bush dogging it's taken its toll.
That a dog year's like seven's no ace in the hole.
That his six years is forty-two doesn't bode well.
With Bush ninety-six it's AgeBelly Bird hell.

Original Verse by Dr. Seuss
New Verse by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
3/25/07

To 'Dr. Seuss Parodies'
To 'Bushie, The Lying Bastard'