Poetry Month: Someone Ate the Baby

[mysid]

My younger brother was a very reluctant reader as a child, but he would voluntarily open Shel Silverstein's books.



Someone Ate the Baby
from Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein

Someone ate the baby,
It’s rather sad to say.
Someone ate the baby
So she won’t be out to play.
We’ll never hear her whiney cry
Or have to feel if she is dry.
We’ll never hear her asking “Why?”
Someone ate the baby.

Someone ate the baby.
It’s absolutely clear
Someone ate the baby
‘Cause the baby isn’t here.
We’ll give away her toys and clothes.
We’ll never have to wipe her nose.
Dad says, “That’s the way it goes.”
Someone ate the baby.

Someone ate the baby.
What a frightful thing to eat!
Someone ate the baby
Though she wasn’t very sweet.
It was a heartless thing to do.
The policemen haven’t got a clue.
I simply can’t imagine who
Would go and (burp) eat the baby.



I think the burp is my favorite part of the poem. :)
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Comments

[fantomeq.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha! I'll read that to Elizabeth as soon as she wakes up.

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's excellent.