Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons and she named them all Dave?
Well, she did. And that wasn't a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one and calls out, "Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn't get ONE.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run.
This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves'
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn
And one of them ...
[21 names omitted in the interest of staying on the safe side of copyright law]
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate...
But she didn't do it. And now it's too late.
C 1961, 1989, Theodore Suess Geisel, in "The Sneetches and Other Stories" Random House, New York
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