poem "The loser" (Shel Silverstein)
- Author: Shel Silverstein
- Publisher:
From the book Where the sidewalk ends (1974).
Text
- Mama said I'd lose my head
- if it wasn't fastened on.
- Today I guess it wasn't
- 'cause while playing with my cousin
- it fell off and rolled away
- and now it's gone.
- And I can't look for it
- 'cause my eyes are in it,
- and I can't call to it
- 'cause my mouth is on it
- (couldn't hear me anyway
- 'cause my ears are on it),
- can't even think about it
- 'cause my brain is in it.
- So I guess I'll sit down
- on this rock
- and rest for just a minute...