This boat that we just built is just fine – and don’t try to tell us it’s not the sides and the back are divine – It’s the bottom I guess we forgot.
SHEL SILVERSTEINAnd the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
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And the tree was happy.
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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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She had blue skin. And so did he. He kept it hid, And so did she. They searched for blue their whole life through, Then passed right by – And never knew.
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How much good inside a day? Depends on how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends on how much you give ’em.
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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And he didn’t really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere because you really have to go somewhere, don’t you?
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
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It’s all the same to the clam.
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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