I know it’s hard to believe, but I was unaware of this fact/poem/ song/whatever it is until Shooting Parrots created a post today about its author, Shel Silverstein.
As my good deed for the day, I decided to share both the poem and Shooting Parrot’s post with you.
In addition, here are two cartoons from one of Shel Silverstein’s books, Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book (if you need to, click on each cartoon to enlarge it):


To see a picture of Mr. Silverstein and learn a bit more about him, click here.