Just to set the record straight, this was in fact written by
Gene Ziegler.
It's a section from a longer poem, and someone found it on the Internet, truncated it, and started passing it off as a Dr. Seuss work. I guess this person didn't realize that Dr. Seuss wrote the majority of his books in anapestic tetrameter (short-short-long), while this poem looks like it is in quartus paeonic tetrameter (short-short-short-long).
