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    Lola Rose
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    SICK by Shel Silverstein

    "I cannot go to school today,"
    Said little Peggy Ann McKay,
    "I have the measles and the mumps,
    A gash, a rash, and purple bumps.
    My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
    I'm going blind in my right eye.
    My tonsils are as big as rocks,
    I've counted sixteen chicken pox
    And there's one more--that's seventeen,
    And don't you think my face looks green?
    My leg is cut, my eyes are blue--
    It might be instamatic flu.
    I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
    I'm sure that my left leg is broke--
    My hip hurts when I move my chin,
    My belly button's caving in,
    My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
    My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
    My nose is cold, my toes are numb,
    I have a sliver in my thumb.
    My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
    I hardly whisper when I speak.
    My tongue is filling up my mouth,
    I think my hair is falling out.
    My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
    My temperature is one-o-eight.
    My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
    There is a hole inside my ear.
    I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
    What's that? What's that you say?
    You say today is---Saturday?
    G'bye, I'm going out to play!"

    I used to recite tis when I was little(er). I even won a talent contet doing it at school. And italways makes me smile big.


    I you pooka!

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    I LOOOVEE THIS POEM! I had to recite it in 4th grade for an assignment, I dressed up and everything I <3 lola
    I believe you Dottie and you have my support

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    Default Re: I cannot go to school today. A poem. For pooka, I love you!

    Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeee I just found this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Did you know I LOVE you???????


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    Default Re: I cannot go to school today. A poem. For pooka, I love you!

    my favorite shel silverstein poem was always...

    Smart

    My dad gave me one dollar bill
    'Cause I'm his smartest son,
    And I swapped it for two shiny quarters
    'Cause two is mroe than one!

    And then i took the quarters
    And traded them to Lou
    For three dimes-i guess he don't know
    that three is mroe than two!

    Just them, along came old blind Bates
    And just 'cause he can't see
    He gave me four nickels for my three dimes,
    And four is more than three!

    And i took the nickels to Hiram Coombs
    Down at the seed-feed store,
    and the fool gave me five pennies for them,
    And five is more than four!

    And then i went and showed my dad,
    and he go red in the cheeks
    And closed his eyes and shook his head-
    Too proud of me to speak!

    Love it!

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    And then when you grow up you find out that he wrote the lyrics for "A Boy Named Sue" and nasty, naughty country lyrics for Bobby Bare so you can keep loving him!

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    Default Re: I cannot go to school today. A poem. For pooka, I love you!

    He also wrote several articles and stories for Playboy.

    My favorite poem of his was always "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out." My ex-husband performed it when he was in high school and won several awards for it. He did that performance again for me when we were first dating (ten years ago - sheeeeeeeeeeesh) and it still makes me smile.

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    Default Re: I cannot go to school today. A poem. For pooka, I love you!

    ^^^ ooooh thats my favorite too! i love those books

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    Aww, ya, I love shel. I read this one book:

    About 100 times. The spine was eventually takped back together. I still have my book, for my kids.

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