Another Dr. Seuss rewrite, this time it's "The Zax" Enjoy and comment.
One day, making tracks, in the prairie of Dakota, came a Northeastern Zax, and a Southeastern Zax.
And it happened that both of them came to a place, where they bumped into each-other, foot to foot, and face to face.
"Look and see!" said the Northeastern Zax. "You're blocking the path! You're right in my way!"
"I'm a Northeastern Zax, heading south for the winter. Get out of the way now, and let me go forth!"
"Who dares say I'm in whose way?!" snapped the Southeastern Zax. I'm going north for the winter, and you're in MY way, so I must ask you to move, so I can move north!"
Then the Northeastern Zax puffed his chest up with pride.
"I'll never move!" he said with a boom. "And I'll never move, even if I have to keep standing here fifty-nine days!"
"And I'll prove to YOU," yelled the Southeastern Zax, "that I can stand here in the prairie of Dakota for fifty-nine years, 'cause I live by a rule, that I learned as a boy back in Southeastern School.
"Never move! Not to west, or not to the east!"
"I'll stand here even if takes decades and decades, even if the whole world stands still!"
Well, I must say, of course, the world didn't stand still. It grew and grew.
In a couple of years, a new highway came through, built right over those two stubborn Zax.
And they left them there, standing, un-budged in their tracks.