I Want To Be Cancelled…Eventually

There is big drama
in the entertainment world
because some Dr. Seuss books
are being pulled from publication.

These books are
50, 60, 70 years old.

If my books are still relevant
50 years from now,
I’ll be very disappointed.

I would hope
we would have progressed
as a species
enough to make them
irrelevant.

(I suspect my love
of eating meat
will be enough
to make me irrelevant.)

Old books,
TV shows,
products
being ‘cancelled’
is an act to be celebrated,
not resisted.

It means we’ve advanced
as a species.