¡¶Where the Sidewalk Ends¡·


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    Shell cling

    But just one thing, please,

    Ill swing

    turkey on thanksgiving,

    From a high-up

    Dont sneeze.

    Pudding on Cmas,

    If you are a dreamer,come in,

    Donald heard a mermaid sing,

    trapeze.

    Its ttom I guess ...

    Fish on Friday,

    Eddie toucroll,

    By your nose

    But all the magic I have known

    For o spin.

    A hoper-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...

    And dont try to tell us its not.

    Chicken on Sunday,

    By my ankles,

    Leftovers, Monday.

    the back are divine-

    As you hang

    But ah, me-Im such a dunce.

    Come in!

    Laurie danced ches once,

    Susy spied an elf,

    I must remember...

    t t  built is just fine-

    to your knees

    Eggs on Easter,

    If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,

    I  and ate t once.

    Sandras seen a leprechaun,

    Charlie found some goblins gold.

    As  the breeze-

    If youre a pretender, come sit by my fire

    Ive o make myself.

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    Oh

    CRASh!

    my

    BASh!

    its

    BANG!

    the

    ZANG!

    Fourth

    hOOSh!

    of

    BAROOOM!

    July

    hE!

    Ickle Me, Pickle Me, tickle Me too

    ent for a ide in a flying shoe.

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    quot;Its time ;

    Said Ickle Me, Pickle Me, tickle Me too.

    Ickle ain, and Pickle was crew

    And tickle served coffee and mulligan stew

    As higher

    And higher

    And hey flew,

    Ickle Me, Pickle Me, tickle Me too.

    Ickle Me, Pickle Me, tickle Me too.

    Over the blue.

    quot;;

    quot;Stay in!quot;

    quot;I ;

    Cried Ickle Me, Pickle Me, tickle Me too.

    Ickle Me, Pickle Me, tickle Me too

    Never returned to they knew,

    And nobody

    knows ws

    o

    Dear Ickle Me, Pickle Me, tickle Me too.

    Captain  remember

    Not to scratcoes.

    Captain  c

    And never pick his nose.

    Captain  be gentle

    hen he shakes your hand.

    Captain  be careful

    Openin saardine cans

    And plalying tag and pouring tea

    And turnin pages of his book.

    Lots of folks Im glad I aint--

    But mostly Captain hook!

    I  play at tug o war.

    Id rat hug o war,

    here everyone hugs

    Instead of tugs,

    here everyone giggles

    And rolls on the rug,

    here everyone kissis,

    And everyone grins,

    And everyone cuddles,

    And everyone wins.

    I am ing these poeams

    From inside a lion,

    And its rather dark in here.

    So please excuse ting

    be too clear.

    But ternoon by the lions cage

    Im afraid I got too near.

    And Im ing these lines

    From inside a lion,

    And its rather dark in here.

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    So you  got drum, just beat your belly.

    So I  got a horn--ill play my nose.

    So we  any cymbals-

    And tras

    t sound a little better

    itruments

    t cost an a-

    wice as good

    By playing !

    One star is for Alaska...

    One star is for Nebraska...

    One star is for Norta...

    One star is for Minnesota...

    ts of otars,

    But I forget whey are.

    Night,

    My skin is kind of sort of brownish

    Pinkise.

    My eyes are greyish blueish green,

    But Im told t.

    My hair is reddish blondish brown,

    But its silver .

    And all the colors I am inside

    been invented yet.

    Mama said Id lose my head

    If it  fastened on.

    today I guess it

    Cause wh my cousin

    It fell of and rolled away

    And nos gone.

    And I cant look for it

    Cause my eyes are in it,

    And I cant call to it

    Cause my mout

    (Couldnt hear me anyway

    Cause my ears are on it),

    Cant even t it

    Cause my brain is in it.

    So I guess Ill sit down

    On this rock

    And rest for just a minute...

    Joey Joey took a stone

    And knocked

    Down

    the

    Sun!

    And w swizzled

    Down so hard,

    And bloomp! it bounced

    In his backyard,

    And glunk! it landed

    On oe!

    And the world was dark,

    And t grow,

    And t blow,

    And t crow,

    And it al,

    ell just slap our ogether,

    Night.

    All because

    Of a stone

    And Joe.

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    Listen to tNtS, child,

    Listen to tS

    Listen to tS

    tS

    Listen to the NEVER hAVES

    ten close to me-

    Anything can happen, child,

    ANYthING can be.

    Ill tell you tory of Jimmy Jet-

    And you knoelll you is true.

    o cV set

    almost as much as you.

    cc

    till he grew pale and lean,

    From quot;t; to quot;te Late S;

    And all tween.

    cill his eyes were frozen wide,

    And tom greo his chair.

    And urned into a tuning dial,

    And antennae gre of his hair.

    And urned into tV tubes,

    And o a tV screeen.

    And t;VERtquot; and quot;;

    Grew where his ears had been.

    And  looked like a tail

    So tle Jim.

    And noead of cV

    e all sit around and ch him.

    Oh, if youre a bird, be an early bird

    And catc plate.

    If youre a bird, be an early early bird-

    But if youre a e.

    A piece of sky

    Broke off and fell

    the ceiling

    Rigo my soup,

    KERPLOP!

    I really must state

    t I usually e

    Lentil soup, but I ate

    Every drop!

    Delicious delicious

    (A bit like plaster),

    But so delicious, goodness sake-

    I could en a lentil-soup lake.

    Its amazing the difference

    A bit of sky can make.

    Oen

    By a boa constrictor,

    A boa constrictor,

    A boa constrictor,

    Im being eaten by a boa constrictor,

    And I dont like it--one bit.

    ell, w do you know?

    Its nibblin my toe.

    Oh, gee,

    Its up to my knee.

    Oh my,

    Its up to my thigh.

    Oh, fiddle,

    Its up to my middle.

    Oh, heck,

    Its up to my neck.

    Oh, dread,

    Its upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff . . .

    Once I spoke the flowers,

    Once I understood eacerpillar said,

    Once I smiled in secret at tarlings,

    And sion he housefly

    in my bed.

    Once I ions

    of ts,

    And joined the crying of each falling dying

    flake of snow,

    Once I spoke the flowers. . . .

    go?

    go?

    Buy Seins Poetry

    If you o school.

    teardrop of a crying ant would be your swimming pool.

    A crumb of cake

    And last you seven days at least,

    A flea would be a frig

    If you were one incall.

    If you he door,

    And it ake about a monto get doo tore.

    A bit of fluff would be your bed,

    Youd shread,

    And himble on your head

    If you were one incall.

    Youd surf across tcick of gum.

    You couldnt  o humb.

    Youd run from peoples feet in fright,

    to move a pen ake all night,

    (took fourteen years to e--

    Cause Im just one incall).

    I opened my eyes

    And looked up at the rain,

    And it dripped in my head

    And floo my brain,

    And all t I hear as I lie in my bed

    Is ty-sloshe rain in my head.

    I step very softly,

    I walk very slow,

    I cant do a and--

    I might overflow,

    So pardon t said--

    Im just not theres rain in my head.

    the sidewalk ends

    And before treet begins,

    And t and we,

    And t,

    And ts from

    to cool in t wind.

    Let us leave the smoke blows black

    And treet winds and bends.

    Past ts w flowers grow

    e s is measured and slow,

    And ce arrows go

    to the sidewalk ends.

    Yes  is measured and slow,

    And well go we arrows go,

    For they know

    the sidewalk ends.