This week schools across Arkansas have been celebrating Read Across America in honor of the birthday of Dr. Seuss.Our own Liz Massey read to kids at the Clinton Library, and today (Friday) sequestration took effect, the automatic spending cuts.

Which brings us to Craig's Twist 89. . .Dr. Seussquestration:

'Horton Hears a Boo'

On March the first, at a very near zoo
Horton the elephant heard a "boo"
Not from a human, nor from a bird
But Horton distinctly heard that word

When he looked at his feet he saw full grown
A flea standing on top of a lost smart phone
Excuse me said Horton, was that you
Were you the one who I heard boo
Because that wasn't very kind that wasn't nice
Before using that word I would've thought twice

Yes indeed I'm afraid that was me
Said the fearless, and friendly tech savy flea
I've looked at every app I've read every tweet
Playing with this phone right here at your feet

I've read about what's affecting the nation
It's something called sequestration
85 billion in automatic cuts
'Cause Congress hasn't got guts
To work together or compromise
To produce a country on the rise
From things I've read to things I hear
This is what I the flea do fear
That after all the negative political zingers
And after all the nasty pointing fingers
And after scare after scare after scare after scare
The people in the country just don't care
The flea then sunk to his flea knees
Horton picked him up with his trunk with ease
And ofcourse trying not to sneeze
Then said to the flea there's only one thing we both should do
And there in the middle of the zoo
Horton and the flea went zoo, boooooooo