Fox in Socks!

Fox in Sox

-Dr. Seuss

Fox
Socks
Box
Knox
Knox in box.
Fox in socks.
Knox on fox
in socks in box.
Sox on Knox
and Knox in box.
Fox in socks
on box on Knox.
Chicks with bricks come.
Chicks with blocks come.
Chicks with bricks and
blocks and clocks come.
Look, sir. Look, sir.
Mr. Knox , sir
Let's do tricks with
bricks and blocks, sir.
Let's do tricks with
chicks and clocks, sir.
First, I'll make a
quick trick brick stack.
Then I'll make a
quick trick block stack.
You can make a
quick trick chick stack.
You can make a
quick trick clock stack.
And here's a
new trick, Mr. Knox....
Socks on chicks
and chicks on fox.
Fox on clocks
on bricks and blocks.
Bricks and blocks
on Knox on box.
Now we come to
ticks an tocks, sir.
Try to say this
Mr. Knox, sir....
Clocks on fox ticks.
Clocks on Knox tock.
Six sick bricks tick.
Six sick chicks tock.
Please, sir. I don't
like this trick, sir.
My tongue isn't
quick or slick, sir.
I get all those
ticks and clocks, sir,
mixed up with the
chicks and tocks, sir.
I can't do it, Mr. Fox, sir.
I'm so sorry
Mr. Knox, sir.
Here's an easy
game to play.
Here's an easy
thing to say....
New socks.
Two socks.
Whose socks?
Sue's socks.
Who sews whose socks?
Sue sews Sue's socks.
Who sees who sew
whose new socks, sir?
You see Sue sew
Sue's new socks, sir.
That's not easy,
Mr. Fox, sir.
Who comes? ...
Crow comes.
Slow Joe Crow comes.
Who sews crow's clothes?
Sue sew crow's clothes.
Slow Joe Crow
sews whose clothes?
Sue's clothes.
Sue sews socks of
fox in socks now.
Slow Joe Crow sews
Knox in box now.
Sue sews rose
on Slow Joe Crow's clothes.
Fox sews hose
on Slow Joe Crow's nose.
Hose goes.
Roes grows.
Nose hose goes some.
Crow's rose grows some.
Mr. Fox!
I hate this game, sir
This game makes
my tongue quite lame, sir.
Mr. Knox, sir,
what a shame, sir.
We'll find something
new to do now.
Here is lots of
new blue goo now.
New goo. Blue goo.
Gooey. Gooey.
Blue goo. New goo.
Gluey. Gluey.
Gooey goo
for chewy chewing!
That's what that
Goo-Goose is doing.
do you choose to
chew goo, too, sir?
If, sir, you, sir
choose to chew, sir,
with the Goo-Goose,
chew, sir. Do, sir.
Mr. Fox, sir,
I won't do it.
I can't say it.
I won't chew it.
Very well, sir.
Step this way.
We'll find another
game to play.
Bim comes.
Ben comes.
Bim brings Ben broom.
Ben brings Bim broom.
Ben bends Bim's broom.
Bim bends Ben's broom.
Bim's bends
Ben's bends
Ben's bent broom breaks.
Bim's bent broom breaks.
Ben's band. Bim's band.
Big bands. Pig bands.
Bim and Bend lead
bands with brooms.
Ben's band bangs
and Bim's band booms.
Pig band! Broom band!
Big band! Broom band!
My poor mouth can't
say that. No, sir.
My poor mouth is
much too slow, sir.
Well then ...
bring your mouth this way.
I'll find it something
it can say.
Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luke's duck licks lakes
Duck takes licks
in lakes Luck Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks
in lakes duck likes.
I can't blab
such bliber blubber!
My tongue isn't made of rubber.
Mr. Knox. Now
come now. Come now.
You don't have to be so dumb now....
Try to say this,
Mr. Knox, please....
Through three cheese trees
three free fleas few.
While these fleas flew,
freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made
these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made
these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these
three free fleas sneeze.
Stop it! Stop it!
That's enough, sir.
I can't say
such silly stuff, sir.
Very well, then,
Mr. Knox, sir.
Let's have a little talk
about tweetle bettles....
What do you know
about tweetle beetles?
Well...
When tweetle beetles fight,
it's called
a tweetle beetle battle.
And when they
battle in a puddle,
it's a tweetle
beetle puddle battle.
AND when tweetle beetles
battle with paddles in a puddle,
they call it a tweetle
beetle puddle paddle battle.
AND...
When beetles battle beetles
in a puddle paddle battle
an the beetle battle puddle
is a puddle in a bottle...
...they call this
a tweetle beetle
bottle puddle
paddle battle muddle.
AND...
When beetles
fight these beetles
in a bottle
with their paddles
and the bottle's
on a poodle
and the poodle's
eating noodles...
...they call this
a muddle puddle
tweetle poodle
beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.
AND...
Now wait
a minute,
Mr. Socks Fox!
When a fox is
in the bottle where
the tweetle beetles battle
with their paddles
in a puddle on a
noodle-eating poodle,
THIS is what they call...
... a tweetle beetle
noodle poodle bottled
paddled muddled duddled
fuddled wuddled
fox in socks, sir!
Fox in socks,
our game is done, sir
Thank you for
a lot of fun, sir.

William H Timmins - wtimmins@hotmail.com