# Name your favorite Shel Silverstein poem... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-favorite-shel-silverstein-poem/170105 "2003-04-21T19:37:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-favorite-shel-silverstein-poem/170105/41 "2003-04-24T00:32:27Z")
As long as we are lumping in songs too. _Never Bite A Married Woman On The Thigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-favorite-shel-silverstein-poem/170105/42 "2003-04-24T05:28:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stephi \* > **Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too…** Crazy. This poem may have been my first exposure to the Great Beyond. I think it used to give me chills. From _Uncle Shelby’s ABZs_: L. L is for lollipop. Would you like a nice big lollipop? Go into the kitchen and look under the sinkfor another L-word: “lye.” Pour some of it on the floor and tell Mommy you ate it. (This is a fib or a little white lye.) Mommy will take you to the hospital, and after they pump your stomach they will give you a nice big lollipop! I also liked his censorship poem, “They’ve Put a Brasseire on the Camel.” Knock knock. Who’s there? Me. Me who? Exactly. Exactly what? Yes, I have an Exactlywhat on a chain. You have exactly _what_ on a chain? Yes. Yes what? No, Exactlywhat… I forget the rest, but it used to leave me in stictches before I discovered that he lifted the whole thing from Abbot and Costello. Last one: If I had a Brontosaurus, I would name him Morris. But if he suddenly had a bunch of little Brontosauri, I would name him Lauri. Mr. Smeds and Mr. Spats. Pamela Purse yelled “LADIES FIRST!!” Okay, this is really the last one: Elmer came to school and said: “Durn, I growed another head.” Teacher said “Elmer, it’s time you knowed: The word is ‘grew’ instead of ‘growed.’” Insanity. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-favorite-shel-silverstein-poem/170105/43 "2003-04-24T05:40:06Z")
_[Hamlet As Told on the Street](http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:7VJJfOHh_1UC:www.banned-width.com/shel/works/hamlet.html)_ What can I say? I love Shakespeare. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-favorite-shel-silverstein-poem/170105/44 "2003-04-24T05:43:33Z")
[http://members.tripod.com/crazcowboy/Silverstein/hamlet.htm](http://members.tripod.com/crazcowboy/Silverstein/hamlet.htm) – A better link to the poem. (My first one’s a Google cache.) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-favorite-shel-silverstein-poem/170105/45 "2003-04-29T10:58:01Z")
_Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child, Listen to the DON’TS Listen to the SHOULDN’TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS Listen to the NEVER HAVES Then listen close to me – Anything can happen, child ANYTHING can be._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-favorite-shel-silverstein-poem/170105.md?page=2)