Smart

Lake Superior
pic courtesy of my Mom


Here is one of the Princess's favorite poems. This poem is written by Shel Silverstein and is in his Where the Sidewalk Ends book.





SMART





My dad gave me one dollar bill


'Cause I'm his smartest son,


And I swapped it for two shiny quarters


'Cause two is more than one!





And then I took the quarters


And traded them to Lou


For three dimes-I guess he don't know


That three is more than two!





Just then, along came old blind Bates


And just 'cause he can't see


He gave me four nickels for my three dimes,


And four is more than three!




And I took the nickels to Hiram Coombs


Down at the seed-feed store,


And the fool gave me five pennies for them,


And five is more than four!





And then I went and showed my dad,


And he got red in the cheeks


And closed his eyes and shook his head-


Too proud of me to speak!


~ Shel Silverstein
Where the Sidewalk Ends

The Princess was laying in her bed reading this book one night when she came to this poem. She found it so fun that she came into our room at 10:30 to read it to us!