Almost forgot what day it was: Poetry Friday, hosted at Biblio File. Having just finished a reading meme, I’m thinking back to one of the formative influences of my early reading life: The Electric Company. Okay, it screams ’70’s! But where else has such an amazing cast ever been assembled in the cause of literacy?

Want to share my nostalgia-fest? Here’s a short clip (1:15) of the kind of word play that was so integral to the show’s success all those years ago. I guess you’d call it a “found poem,” one that helped convince me as a child that the world was filled with word-treasures, and reading would be the instrument for discovering a sense in nonsense:

(My daughters just watched it with me and enjoyed it… though they agreed that Uncle Sam looks “grumphy.”)