The Sneetches

“All the rest of that day, on those wild screaming beaches,

The Fix-it-Up Chappie kept fixing up Sneetches.

Off again!  On again!

In again!  Out Again!

Through the machines they raced round and about again,

Changing their stars every minute or two.

They kept paying money.  They kept running through

Until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew

Whether this one was that one…or that one was this one

Or which one was what one…or what one was who.

 

Then, when every last cent

Of their money was spent,

The Fix-it-Up Chappie packed up

And he went.

And he laughed as he drove

In his car up the beach,

“They never will learn,

No. You can’t teach a Sneetch!”

 

But, McBean was quite wrong. I’m quite happy to say

That the Sneetches got really quite smart on that day

The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches

And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches.

That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars

And whether they had one, or not, upon thars.”

~Dr. Seuss

Here’s to the dream that one day we learn, like the Sneetches did, that people are people and no one kind is best.