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Sheldon Allan Silverstein's Poetry, by title

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  • 100,000 Pennies
    I broke into the bank on Sunday,
    You should see the money I got.
    35 lines, 2 comments
  • 25 Minutes To Go
    They're buildin' the gallows outside my cell.
    I got 25 minutes to go.
    76 lines
  • A Boy Named Sue
    Well, my daddy left home when I was three,
    and he didn't leave much to Ma and me,
    70 lines, 22 comments
  • A Couple More Years
    I've got a couple more years on you, baby...that's all.
    I've had more chances to fly and more places to fall.
    21 lines
  • A Front Row Seat To Hear Ole Johnny Sing
    Now you know some fellahs, they want fame and fortune
    Yeah, and other fellahs they just wanna swing
    66 lines
  • A Light In The Attic
    There's a light on in the attic.
    Thought the house is dark and shuttered,
    6 lines
  • Acapulco Goldie
    She was dancin' when I seen her, in a Mexican cantina
    In a neighborhood they call "La Zona Roja".
    17 lines
  • Alimony
    Alimony alimony I work till my fingers are bloody and boney
    Me oh my oh goodness sake I'm paying for my mistake
    24 lines
  • All About You
    In the Grandville greyhound station in the lightly drizzlin' rain
    Sittin' on my suitcase goin' quietly insane all about you babe all
    20 lines
  • All The Time In The World
    Lay down
    Let's explore this tenderness between us
    24 lines
  • AntEater
    "A genuine anteater,"
    The pet man told my dad.
    4 lines, 3 comments
  • Aphrodisiac
    Now, listen to me, folks...
    Hear what I say.
    74 lines
  • Ations
    If we meet and I say, "Hi,"
    That's a salutation.
    18 lines
  • Batty
    The baby bat
    Screamed out in fright,
    3 lines
  • Beans Taste Fine
    Now a friend of mine, way back in Chicago
    You know, he finally made his pile.
    33 lines
  • Bear In There
    There's a polar bear
    In our Frigidaire--
    17 lines, 8 comments
  • Better Not Ask Me
    (Hey the truth might hurt so I'm tellin' you now that you better not ask me)
    Hey you better not ask me where I been all night
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • Bigtime
    Hey dragged up my holly and I pull it to a town for the bigtime
    Hey rig down the road I tore 'em down I'm a bigtime
    24 lines
  • Bituminous?
    The hard coal's called bituminous,
    Or is that anthracite?
    23 lines
  • Boa Constrictor
    Oh, I'm being eaten
    By a boa constrictor,
    17 lines
  • Bubblin' Up
    I used to be a prancer
    a one-eyed song and dancer
    23 lines
  • Bury Me In My Shades
    In a pad with no heat, up on Sullivan Street,
    The last of the hipsters lay dyin'.
    56 lines
  • Captain Hook
    Captain Hook must remember
    Not to scratch his toes.
    11 lines
  • Changing Of The Seasons
    Oh the changing of the seasons it's a pretty thing to see
    And though I find this balmy weather pleasin'
    19 lines
  • Channels
    Channel 1's no fun.
    Channel 2's just news.
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Clarence
    Clarence Lee from Tennessee
    Loved the commercials he saw on TV.
    32 lines
  • Cloony The Clown
    I'll tell you the story of Cloony the Clown
    Who worked in a circus that came through town.
    48 lines, 2 comments
  • Cloudy Sky
    The Moon she is a pretty girl who lives up in the stars
    And that old cloud he's a great old man who loves her from afar
    20 lines
  • Colors
    My skin is kind of sort of brownish
    Pinkish yellowish white.
    7 lines, 1 comment
  • Come After Jinny
    He'll be comin' down the road at the break of day
    His head thrown back and his guns tied low
    24 lines
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