diff --git a/lib/blessed.js b/lib/blessed.js
index 05f748b..f00f7e4 100644
--- a/lib/blessed.js
+++ b/lib/blessed.js
@@ -1,48 +1,29 @@
 /**
- * Blessed
- * A curses-like library for node.js.
+ * blessed - a high-level terminal interface library for node.js
  * Copyright (c) 2013-2015, Christopher Jeffrey and contributors (MIT License).
  * https://github.com/chjj/blessed
  */
 
-/**
- * Modules
- */
-
-var program = require('./program')
-  , tput = require('./tput')
-  , widget = require('./widget')
-  , colors = require('./colors')
-  , unicode = require('./unicode');
-
 /**
  * Blessed
  */
 
 function blessed() {
-  return program.apply(null, arguments);
+  return blessed.program.apply(null, arguments);
 }
 
-blessed.program = blessed.Program = program;
-blessed.tput = blessed.Tput = tput;
-blessed.widget = widget;
-blessed.colors = colors;
-blessed.unicode = unicode;
+blessed.program = blessed.Program = require('./program');
+blessed.tput = blessed.Tput = require('./tput');
+blessed.widget = require('./widget');
+blessed.colors = require('./colors');
+blessed.unicode = require('./unicode');
+blessed.helpers = require('./helpers');
 
-Object.keys(blessed.widget).forEach(function(name) {
-  blessed[name] = blessed.widget[name];
-});
+blessed.helpers.sprintf = blessed.tput.sprintf;
+blessed.helpers.tryRead = blessed.tput.tryRead;
+blessed.helpers.merge(blessed, blessed.helpers);
 
-blessed.helpers = {
-  sprintf: blessed.tput.sprintf,
-  merge: blessed.tput.merge,
-  tryRead: blessed.tput.tryRead
-};
-
-Object.keys(widget.helpers).forEach(function(key) {
-  blessed.helpers[key] = widget.helpers[key];
-  blessed[key] = widget.helpers[key];
-});
+blessed.helpers.merge(blessed, blessed.widget);
 
 /**
  * Expose
diff --git a/lib/tput.js b/lib/tput.js
index 9d69918..c579dec 100644
--- a/lib/tput.js
+++ b/lib/tput.js
@@ -2983,7 +2983,6 @@ Tput.utoa = Tput.prototype.utoa = {
 
 exports = Tput;
 exports.sprintf = sprintf;
-exports.merge = merge;
 exports.tryRead = tryRead;
 
 module.exports = exports;
diff --git a/lib/widget.js b/lib/widget.js
index a43c797..a26a81e 100644
--- a/lib/widget.js
+++ b/lib/widget.js
@@ -42,5 +42,3 @@ widget.classes.forEach(function(name) {
   var file = name.toLowerCase();
   widget[name] = widget[file] = require('./widgets/' + file);
 });
-
-widget.helpers = require('./helpers');