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Hanging Up

Sidewalking
They say if you step on a crack,
You will break your mother's back.
But that's just silly, ha-ha-ha--
Oops -- Plop--Sorry, Ma.

Big Eating Contest
The entrance fee cost me
Two dollars, and then
It cost twenty more
For those burgers and fries.
My hospital bill
Was a hundred and ten.
But I won --
The five-dollar first prize!

Writer waiting
Oh this shiny new computer --
There just isn't nothin' cuter.
It knows everything the world ever knew.
And with this great computer
I don't need no writin' tutor,
'Cause there ain't a single thing that it can't do.
It can sort and it can spell,
It can punctuate as well.
It can find and file and underline and type.
It can edit and select,
It can copy and correct,
So I'll have a whole book written by tonight
(Just as soon as it can think of what to write).



Today's light-hearted passage comes from a Shel Silverstein book called Falling Up. Anyone who has read any of Shel Silverstein's work should know how magical he is. Besides the hilarious A Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends, he also wrote the amazing stories such as The Missing Piece and The Giving Tree. He passed away a few years ago but his works touch millions of people. Well they touch me. Below are three short poems from Falling Up.
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