‘Twas just days before Macworld
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 22, 2006 at 7:24am
In the spirit of the season, I’d like to present a special poem that I wrote. It’s called “Twas just days before Macworld” (or “A Visit from Steve Jobs”). My apologies to Clement Clarke Moore. By the way, you can see me actually reading the poem in my Santa cap on this week’s Video Sandbox.
‘Twas just days before the Expo and all over the world
Imaginations were stirring in each boy and girl.
Our earbuds were hung from our iPods with care,
In hopes that an new model soon would be here.
The analysts were nestled all snug in their bedw
while visions of iPhones danced in their heads.
My wife in her housecoat, I in my Homer Simpson pajamas
Were as warm and comfy as fur-coated llamas
When out on the roof there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like the Flash
Tore open the shutter, and threw up on the sash.
The moon bounced from the breast of the ground down below
(Hey, I live in Nashville and we ain’t got no snow)
When what to my blood-shot eyes should appear
But The Man himself in a jet, twas a Lear
He was a middle-aged man with charisma aglow
And I knew in a moment it was the Apple CEO
More rapid than eagles, his teammates they came
And he patted their backs and called each one by name.
I won’t try to list ‘em, not at this time
Namely because their names just don’t rhyme
Still, I did hear Steve Jobs’ clarion call:
“Now innovate! Innovate!
“Innovate all!”
He was dressed in a turtleneck as black as the night,
Tennis shoes and jeans that fit him just right.
A bundle of ideas he had stuffed in his noggin
(which was slightly balding, he should’ve worn a tobbogan)
Then I could feel it—the Reality Distortion Field
And I could feel my credit card beginning to yield
For new Macs and iPods and perhaps an iTV
and certainly for marvels that were yet to be.
Jobs jumped in his jet, to his team gave a whistle
and away they all flew like a guided missile.
But I heard him exclaim, yes I heard him sing,
“Happy Macworld to all, now just one more thing!”
Dennis Sellers Says:
Hey, Gerry, it’s my poem. If I want Jobs in a Lear and not a Jetstream, it’s a Lear. :-)
Besides, I couldn’t Gulfstream with “appear.” And here in the South, a toboggan is indeed a sled, but it’s also a term used for a covering for your head (as in “son, put on your toboggan before you go outside,” which I heard many times as a kid).
Posted on December 22, 2006
Larry Says:
Oh! Sorry to hear you “threw up on the sash”. Hope you are feeling better.
Posted on December 22, 2006
muskateergraphics.com Says:
This was priceless. Great job (no pun intended).
Posted on December 22, 2006
Sandeep Batavia Says:
Dude that was sweet!! I loved every word, nice job. now if only Steve had something to say....
Posted on December 23, 2006
Andre Marion Says:
Quite entertaining. Up here in the great white north (Canada) a toboggan has only ever been known as a sled to go down snow covered slopes with. I’m quite intrugued as to how the word toboggan morphed into describing a hat for your head.
Anyway, Merry Christmas Dennis to you and your family!
Posted on December 23, 2006
Dan Ballance Says:
I’m from neighboring North Carolina and I know a toboggan is a hat.
[Waits for the redneck jokes to commence]
It’s a cultural thing, guys.
Posted on December 23, 2006
Happy Holidays to you and Yours Dennis Says:
Hi Dennis, Great article.
I look forward to continuing to read your column for years to come.
Yours,
C. B. C.
Posted on December 25, 2006
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
Gerry Curry Says:
You Southern boys can’t get anything right! <grin>
Steve owns a Gulfstream V not a Lear jet, and you RIDE a tobbogan, while you WEAR a toque. Now figure out a rhyme for all that!
Merry Christmas Dennis
Posted on December 22, 2006