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What's your opinion on Shel Silverstein?
>>17336241based, still have a couple of his poems memorized
>>17336241Ugly.
>>17336241Greg Heffley was right.
>>17336241Looked like a homeless rapist, and I have a sneaking suspicion he was.
in retrospect, he was a jew
>>17336260):<
>>17336265When he said...
>>17336241>The saddest thing I ever did see >Was a woodpecker peckin' at a plastic tree. >He looks at me, and "Friend," says he, >"Things ain't as sweet as they used to be."still cripples me every time I remember it.
>>17336241I struggle to comprehend that a real person actually looks like that and it isn't a character from Facejacker or the like.
>>17336381it gets better
>>17336241>>17336387He looks like a jewish MC Ride
>>17336409oh god he actually does
>>17336241Loved his poems as a child. Probably one of the things that got me into reading.
>>17336241Two boxes met upon the roadSaid one unto the other"If you're a box,And I'm a box,Then you must be my brother.Our sides are thin,We're caving inAnd we must get no thinner"And so two boxes, hand in handWalked home to have their dinner.
Sylvia's Mother is essential boomercore
>>17336241This is one of my favorites of hishttps://allpoetry.com/Hamlet-As-Told-On-The-Street
>>17336409McRideMcYellaMcHammerThere are a lot of Irish artists in Hip Hop.
>>17338020Just a couple of verses into this, but it's truly laugh out loud funny.
>>17336387Burst out laughing.
>>17336346He said Shel Silverstein looked more like a burglar or a pirate than a guy who writes books for kids
>>17336241Not what i imagined he'd look like
he looks like isaac hayes. was he black?
>>17338054*rimshot*
>>17336241His kid's stuff is mildly entertaining but overrated given how hard his stuff got pushed in the 90's.
I've got no deep literary critique of his stuff. His poems are fun and often heartwarming. I have fond memories of reading them with a friend, and with a child at a library volunteer program.>>17336369I bet you're the anon that made me write down that poem. Thanks, buddy.
>>17336241Awesome
i used to love his poetry books when i was a kid. i used to hate when my mom would read the giving tree to me because she would cry every time and i didn't understand why. now i cry every time
>>17338391Is inspiring the next generation just as vital as writing the great magnum opus? I think it must be otherwise who would ever read the magnum opus?
>>17338411I'd say so. Reading and working with kids was really one of my favourite things, as much as some of them were pricks.
>>17336241Shill Shekelstein... also I always thought he was black from the photo for some reason till I read his wikipedia
>>17336265>>17336346>>17338309Based
>>17336241>Shel Silverstein>Silverstein>(((Silver))):S
>>17338989did you think this post was insightful
>>17339254forgive me for being an anti-semite, /pol/ has rotted my brain
>>17336241The human nutcracker
>>17336241Lafcadio is peak shootback lion.
>>17336241he looks suspicious not like someone id like to see whispering sweet nothings into my childs virgin ear
>>17336241Based beyond beliefhttps://youtu.be/TMuQTN7Xo4w
>>17336265fucking based
>>17336265Kek came for this
>>17339254As a matter of fact, I did; what r you going to do about it ?
>>17336241I would follow this man into the gates of Hell based solely on him looking like he does
>>17336241https://youtu.be/ihjyBiHRJCQKids seems love him.
>>17336241His illustrations of naked people made me feel unclean. The Giving Tree was/is the first book to make me cry as a child.