Oh, The LINKS you can Link!

Reprint or repost only with permission. © 1999 Gene Ziegler .


You can think up web pages.
  That's what you can do.
You can think them in yellow
  With letters bright blue...
Think your banners in red.
  And your buttons in pink.
You can paste in a JPEG.
  Oh, the LINKS you can Link!

You can link to the servers
  All over the net.
Think of the zillions 
  of pages you'll get.
If you try you can link to 
  a scroll going bye.
With thousands of buttons
  for users to try.

And you don't have to stop.
  With a hyperlink hop.
You can link in a button
  That pops to the top!
Made from an image
  From your Photoshop.

You can think animation
  Now that would be cool.
A green alligator
  Afloat in a pool
Who's planning to lunch
  on a near swimming fool!

Or think of black water 
  Beneath a white sky
An airplane pulls banners 
  with ads blowing by.
Oh, the LINKS you can Think
 If you'll only just try.

Think LINKS and wonder.
  Now here's a good trick
How many buttons can 
  One user click?
Without getting dizzy 
  Without getting sick!

You can wonder...How far?
  to the end of the web?
And how many pages 
  would fill up your bed.
And does the web reach 
  clear up to the moon,
And will it extend
  out to Mars someday soon.

THINK! You can link 
  any LINK that you wish.
A hyperlinked horse 
  on a satellite dish.
A button that goes 
  and a button that waits.
And what would you say 
  if you met Billy Gates.

And why does my web page 
  Cut off on the right?
You can think about that 
  Until Saturday night.

There are so many LINKS 
  that a thinker can link.
Put them all on your web page 
  And hope it don't sink.
(God bless you Dr. Seuss wherever you are!)    Gene_Ziegler@Cornell.edu .


For Martin and Casey Frank, Christmas, 1999