poem "Smart" (Shel Silverstein)
- Author: Shel Silverstein
- Publisher:
From the book Where the sidewalk ends (1974).
Text
- 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 then one!
- And then I took the quarters
- And traded them to Lou
- For three times - I guess he don't know
- That three is more then two!
- Just then, along came old blind Bates
- And just 'cause he can't see
- He gave me four nickles for my three dimes,
- And four is more then 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 then 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!