Thursday Thoughts - On David Siegel and Urban Legends

Burp Attack

by Rachel Hoyt

 

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One day, The Ruler of Resorts

Looked out at his empire,

Gazed upon a small, green cohort

Some kids viewed as a squire.

Mac the turtle,

Toppled king Yertle -

With one simple burp,

He fell like a twerp.

The Ruler of Resorts knew stuff,

Which mostly he'd learned online,

And so he Googled, "How to rule tough,"

And made plans to thicken his spine.

Mac the turtle,

Pictured king Yertle,

Plummeting in fear,

Then yelled, "Boo!" in his ear.

The Ruler donned his crown

And gathered the thoughts he'd procured,

Wrote his insanity down

And mailed it before he matured.

Mac the turtle,

Laughed at pseudo-Yertle,

"You know you can't succeed.

I'm the yang to your yin greed!"

Knowing Mac was just a small voice,

Unlikely to sue for plagiarism,

The Ruler of Resorts stole his words by choice

With naive hopes of stopping a schism.

Mac the turtle,

Channelled king Yertle,

To decide what to do -

One burp or two?

Yertle fell quickly, but the Ruler's demise

Came from two distinct lifequakes -

One writer now richer for writing good lies

And staff gone on strike, "For Thought's Sake".

 

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved

Inspired by this letter by David Siegel to his employees

and written in hopes the ending will resemble Dr. Seuss's, "Yertle the Turtle".

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