Friday, April 18, 2025

How the Gutenberg Hare Save Easter Despite Egg Scarcity With Books

 

The Easter Bunny and the Easter Hare 

During Easter week the Easter Bunnies are so busy, free time is very rare,
Picking chocolate eggs and rabbits, colored eggs, Easter grass and candies for children to share.
On Easter morn, hard to find a doorstep without the signs that  an Easter Bunny has hopped there
But this year the Easter Bunnies were facing a very fearful scare
 
But this year was different as the bird flu was wiping out the hen populations in coops
making eggs hard for shoppers to find
Worse the prices were soaring to amounts sky high so even it eggs were found soaring prices put shoppers in a bind
How to enjoy omelets, quiches and Eggs Benedict
And Easter Eggs in to the Easter basket interdict
While the Easter Bunnies were running in circles worrying so much they appeared ready to drop
But the Guttenberg Hare had a solution that would cause there rising anxiety to stop
Along with Easter Eggs to be dyed place recipes that called for 2 eggs rather than 3
And added mushrooms, bacon, green peppers, thicker ham slices and more cheese for the diners to see
And instead of grass at the baskets’ bottom one or two books to read and enjoy
Of bios, adventures, mysteries, romance , science, comic heroes or history showing the tools to advance mankind employed
Dyed eggs will create in aspiring artists great satisfaction and pleasure
But as the eggs spoil and are tossed in the trash, that satisfaction will soon be hard to measure
Knowing, his words had ended any Easter Bunny from blowing his casket
He bent over an empty woven Easter Basket.
He lifted and put into his Easter basket a book every child would want to read,
“Friend rabbits, chocolate is divine; on it children will always draw a bead,
But to leave a good book to read
Is like a farmer planting the seeds,
Of morals, thoughts, fables, or heroes to do good deeds,
Teachings and lessons to show the way or teach how to lead.
Lucky is the child, who has a large chocolate to savor and not waste,
While reading a book for sweet knowledge is also a long lasting taste.”
And so with a voice vote that closed the friendly debate,
For no rabbit on Easter morn wished to be late,

© 4/18/2025 Michael P Ridley Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet

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