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If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.
Shel Silverstein
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Shel Silverstein
Age: 66 †
Born: 1932
Born: September 25
Died: 1999
Died: May 10
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why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid. Why try to make me like you? Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle? Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle? Why do you scream when I do what I did? Im a kid.
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I am writing these poems from inside a lion.
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So I'm all of love that could make it today.
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