shel silverstein is one of my favorite authors-remember where the sidewalk ends and a light in the attic
Mrs. Twitter the babysitter
I think she's a little bit crazy
she thinks the babysitter is supposed
to sit upon the baby
"if you have to do the dish
instead of going to the store
but if you have to do the dishes
and you drop one on the floor
maybe they won't let you do the dishes anymore"
vanessa and i used to recite this poem to our parents all the time while doing the dishes and saying how we were gonna drop em.
Shel Silverstein owned children's poetry. I was so upset when he died. I read The Giving Tree last week at Books A Million and I still get that unsettled, reflecting feeling. Good stuff.
My fave was that poem in Where the Sidewalk Ends about that kid that comes up with like 80 exuses not to go to school and then finds out its Saturday and is suddenly miraculously cured.