Horton Hears a Whoovervile
By Nechoic
On the 15th of May, in the Jungle of Nool, in the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool. He was splashing…enjoying the jungle's great joys…when Horton the elephant heard a small noise.
"some poor little people who are shaking with fear that they'll blow in the pool? They have no way to steer. I'll just have to save them. Because after all, a person's a person, no matter how small.
But when he grabbed the speck he heard a thunderous reply, "why bother helping us?" yelled the whos "why?"
"there's nothing left for us here," said the Whos, "president Herbert Whoover saw to that. Now we're in a great Who depression, and we're poor as alley cats."
"All the buildings in Whoville are foreclosed and bare. No Who has the money to own them, we just no longer care."
"And now we all live in a dirty Whooverville on the outskirts of town. There's just nothing left to fix our perpetual frowns."
"We live in shacks made of plywood, scrap metal, and old crates, and we cook sewer rates for our hunger to sate."
"Trickledown economics doesn't work, and Whoover's to blame. We're just disposable pawns in this capitalist game."
"So please, big Horton, don't be a fool. End our misery and throw us in the pool."
And so Horton let out a sigh through the end of his trunk. The Whos on the speck went flying, and into the pool they sunk….