poem "The monkey" (Shel Silverstein)
- Author: Shel Silverstein
- Publisher:
From the book Falling up (1996).
Text
- 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."