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Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein

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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30119.Where_the_Sidewalk_Ends?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Where the Sidewalk Ends" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1168052448m/30119.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30119.Where_the_Sidewalk_Ends?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Where the Sidewalk Ends</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/435477.Shel_Silverstein">Shel Silverstein</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9243442?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 4 of 5 stars A couple of Silverstein's absolute classics are here, including "Boa Constrictor" and "Peanut-Butter Sandwich" plus MY favorite, "sarah slyvia cynthia stout would not take the garbage out." The Christmas I gave Silverstein books to my grandchildren I couldn't make a choice so ended up giving two, <a href="/search/search?q= Where the Sidewalk Ends & A Light in the Attic.&t=title"> Where the Sidewalk Ends & A Light in the Attic.</a> 
 
 Boa Constrictor 
 	
 	 Oh, I'm being eaten
 By a boa constrictor,
 A boa constrictor,
 A boa constrictor,
 I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor,
 And I don't like it--one bit.
 Well, what do you know?
 It's nibblin' my toe.
 Oh, gee,
 It's up to my knee.
 Oh my,
 It's up to my thigh.
 Oh, fiddle,
 It's up to my middle.
 Oh, heck,
 It's up to my neck.
 Oh, dread,
 It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff . . . 
 
 Sick	 
 
 "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!"
 
 
 Originally appeared in Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/354189?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>

Ginnie's review
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bookshelves: children-ya, poetry

A couple of Silverstein's absolute classics are here, including "Boa Constrictor" and "Peanut-Butter Sandwich" plus MY favorite, "sarah slyvia cynthia stout would not take the garbage out." The Christmas I gave Silverstein books to my grandchildren I couldn't make a choice so ended up giving two, Where the Sidewalk Ends & A Light in the Attic.

Boa Constrictor

Oh, I'm being eaten
By a boa constrictor,
A boa constrictor,
A boa constrictor,
I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor,
And I don't like it--one bit.
Well, what do you know?
It's nibblin' my toe.
Oh, gee,
It's up to my knee.
Oh my,
It's up to my thigh.
Oh, fiddle,
It's up to my middle.
Oh, heck,
It's up to my neck.
Oh, dread,
It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff . . .

Sick

"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay....more

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message 1: by Mark

02/15/2008 11:10PM

Another great one: Now we'd just have to tell the little ones what chicken pox are.