poem "The monkey" (Shel Silverstein)

• Author: Shel Silverstein
• Publisher:

From the book Falling up (1996).

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1 little monkey

was goin' 2 the store

when he saw a banana 3

he'd never climbed be4.

By 5 o'clock that evenin'

he was 6 with a stomach ache

'cause 7 green bananas

was what that monkey 8.

 

By 9 o'clock that evenin'

that monkey was quite ill,

so 10 we called the doctor

who was 11 on the hill.

The doctor said, "You're almost dead.

Don't eat green bananas no more."

The sick little monkey groaned and said,

"But that's what I 1-2 the 3-4."

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