The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published
In five big boardrooms on Earth There soon came to be a great mirt… At the growth in net worth That fed on a dearth In all of the people’s self-worth
When Eddie Money said “I’ve got two tickets to paradise” he didn’t mention that the paradise sales team only sells tickets in pairs
We confuse freedom for the act of choosing when our frontal lobe has no choice but to choose just as a heart must beat
We’re all like unharvested potatoe… covered in dirt thinking that means we’ve got the dirt on each other
It’s capitalism after it shed its skin
The cold war was a just war but a just war is still just war and war is hell
In the beginning God said Let there be light A week later In the Garden of Eden
No one is exactly sure why God switched from a pass/fail syst… to having you grade yourself but there have been quite a lot of B-plusses flying ar…
Step up to bat– It’s you against the world First base– Doubt yourself Second base–
One person can never predict the future but two people can if they get married This is a clue
A poem is like a dream In that it shows us the truth Without telling it Because, truth be told There’s no telling
God is the world’s only super-bower
If you are taught that asserting yourself is wrong your only defense will be victimho… Knowing this we can reverse engineer
You seem to have caught me in a gr… But it can’t be at all my fault if As you’ll see in the hieroglyph My back is to the cliff Over which the lemmings drift