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!)
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