Category Shel Silverstein

The hulk of a man with a beer in his hand looked like a drunk old fool,And I knew that if I hit him right, I could knock him off that stool.But everybody said, “Watch out, that’s Tiger Man McCool.He’s…

There is a voice inside of youthat whispers all day long,“I feel that this is right for me,I know that this is wrong.”No teacher, preacher, parent, friendor wise man can decidewhat’s right for you — just listen tothe voice that…

A long time ago, when the earth was greenand there was more kinds of animals than you’ve ever seen,and they run around free while the world was bein’ born,and the lovliest of all was the Unicorn. There was green alligators…

Tell me who canCatch a toucan?Lou can. Just how few canRide the toucan?Two can. What kind of goo canStick you to the toucan?Glue can. Who can write someMore about the toucan?You can!

Mrs. McTwitter was the baby-sitterI think she’s a little bit crazy.She thinks a baby-sitter’s supposedTo sit upon the baby.

Dave McGunn was a surfin’ bum, half–crazed by the blazin’ sun.From Waikiki to the Bering Sea, he rode ’em one by one.Now he hung offshore ’bout a mile or more, out where the dolphins played,And his wild eyes gleamed as…

There once was a boy named Gimmesome Roy. He was nothing like me or you.’Cause laying back and getting high was all he cared to do.As a kid, he sat in the cellar, sniffing airplane glue.And then he smoked bananas…

An oak tree and a rosebush grew,Young and green together,Talking the talk of growing things—Wind and water and weather.And while the rosebush sweetly bloomedThe oak tree grew so highThat now it spoke of newer things-Eagles, mountain peaks and sky.“I guess…

No — I did not take a nap —The nap — took — meoff the bed and out the windowfar beyond the sea,to a land where sleepy headsread only comic booksand lock their naps in iron safesso that they can’t…

1 little monkeywas goin’ 2 the storewhen he saw a banana 3he’d never climbed be4.By 5 o’clock that evenin’he was 6 with a stomach ache’cause 7 green bananaswas what that monkey 8. By 9 o’clock that evenin’that monkey was quite…