The Considerate Soft-Shelled Phizzint

By Shel Silverstein 1930–1999 Shel Silverstein
You’ll never know an animal
          more considerate of human feelings
          than the Soft-Shelled Phizzint.
Someone has mistaken this one
          for a pincushion
          and he’s too polite to say he isn’t.

Copyright 2004 by Evil Eye Music, Inc. Reprinted with permission from the Estate of Shel Silverstein and HarperCollins Children’s Books.

Source: Don't Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies (HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1964)

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Poet Shel Silverstein 1930–1999

POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic

Subjects Relationships, Pets

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A singer-songwriter, cartoonist, screenwriter, award-winning children’s writer, and actor, Shel Silverstein grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He started out as a cartoonist, publishing work in Playboy and the military publication Stars & Stripes, before turning to children’s books. Silverstein is the author and illustrator of numerous books, including The Giving Tree (1964), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974), A Light in the Attic . . .

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SUBJECT Relationships, Pets

POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic

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