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Captain of industry puts the axe to La Jolla’s Lorax tree
The Once(ler) and Future King
“My name is the Lorax, I speak for the…nobody’s listening, are they? Sigh. Would it help if I sang ‘Let it Grow’ from the 2012 hit movie based on my story? No? Sigh.”
In the town of La Jolla, at the edge of Scripps Park
Grew a Monterey Cypress, full of sap, leaves, and bark.
A healthy old tree, and quite famous to boot
Since it helped Dr. Seuss make a boatload of loot.
That tree and no other was fluffy enough
To start the Doc thinking of something called Truff-
ula — yes! What an excellent name!
(He asked his friend Lorax, and he thought the same.)
And in no time at all, he’d published a tale
That made the old Onceler look destined to fail.
A mismanaged market, a finite supply
A fiasco to blame on a self-centered guy.
But fifty years later, the truth can be told
Old bosses don’t fail, they don’t even get old!
The tree was a relic, its race had been run
Once Seuss made his money, its work was all done.
UNLESS, I surmised — and my thinking was sound —
UNLESS some new path to a profit was found.
And that’s why I felled it, and chopped it in chunks
Into branches, and twigs, even slices of trunks.
The tree from the plea to keep old Earth alive
Can be yours — well, in part — for just $12.95.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Captain of industry puts the axe to La Jolla’s Lorax tree
The Once(ler) and Future King
Captain of industry puts the axe to La Jolla’s Lorax tree
The Once(ler) and Future King
“My name is the Lorax, I speak for the…nobody’s listening, are they? Sigh. Would it help if I sang ‘Let it Grow’ from the 2012 hit movie based on my story? No? Sigh.”
In the town of La Jolla, at the edge of Scripps Park
Grew a Monterey Cypress, full of sap, leaves, and bark.
A healthy old tree, and quite famous to boot
Since it helped Dr. Seuss make a boatload of loot.
That tree and no other was fluffy enough
To start the Doc thinking of something called Truff-
ula — yes! What an excellent name!
(He asked his friend Lorax, and he thought the same.)
And in no time at all, he’d published a tale
That made the old Onceler look destined to fail.
A mismanaged market, a finite supply
A fiasco to blame on a self-centered guy.
But fifty years later, the truth can be told
Old bosses don’t fail, they don’t even get old!
The tree was a relic, its race had been run
Once Seuss made his money, its work was all done.
UNLESS, I surmised — and my thinking was sound —
UNLESS some new path to a profit was found.
And that’s why I felled it, and chopped it in chunks
Into branches, and twigs, even slices of trunks.
The tree from the plea to keep old Earth alive
Can be yours — well, in part — for just $12.95.
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