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Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense
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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. Poem about extinct birds (dodo, auk). [s]

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Akiva ꙮ (wolbster) | 3 comments I remember 2-3 lines of this poem but can't place it:

"Dead is the dodo, gone is the auk
Who couldn't fly but only walk."

I don't know that this was in a book but I can't find the poem on its own anywhere using search engines, so that's my next best guess. Could it be a Shel Silverstein?


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Christine | 18 comments The Book is called Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense by William Jay Smith 1990 and the title of the Poem is Goony Bird

You can see it on the Internet Archive or just put those lines into Google/books and you will be able to read the whole poem.


Akiva ꙮ (wolbster) | 3 comments That's definitely it - thank you!


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Kris | 54953 comments Mod
Glad you found your book, Akiva.

Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense by William Jay Smith - Christine's find.


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