We can’t hold hands – someone might see. Won’t you please, Hold toes with me?
SHEL SILVERSTEINWhen 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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I’ve found my missin’ piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I’ve found my missin’ piece.
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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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I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understand each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings.
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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’t, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me, Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
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Sometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
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The baby bat Screamed out in fright, turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light.
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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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I know a way to stay friends forever, there’s really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, and you do it.
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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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