Winky Dink

If you are of a certain age Then you are on the brink Of possibly forgetting Watching “You and Winky Dink.”* A children’s show on CBS On Saturday each week, It drew us in because it had A gimmick quite unique. For fifty cents you sent away And got a plastic screen With “magic” crayons that you used As part of the routine. The screen stuck to the TV set And Winky Dink (a toon) Instructed us to help him out At moments opportune: Connect the dots or else decode A message being sent; (The purchase of the screens, of course, The studio’s intent.) How many children must have marred Their parents’ one TV? For crayons used without the screen Seems like a guarantee. Of simpler times was “Winky Dink” Yet see how life connects – Those former tots still write on screens But now they’re sending texts! *really called “Winky Dink and You” (a little poetic license here!)