Favorite Poem?

This one was so easy for me!  This has been my favorite eom as long as I can remember.  LG even loves it because we read it over and over.

Shel Silverstein's book Where The Sidewalk Ends is the first book of poetry I ever read.  I remember reading it when I was spending sometime at the pastor's house when I was in 3rd grade.  It wasn't like that!  He was married (Episcopal preist's can marry) and my mom was going through a tough time, I loved it. 

Nearly 30 years later it is still my favorite....

SICK
'I cannot go to school today, '
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
'I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash

and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more-that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut-my eyes are blue-
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke-
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is-what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is...Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play! '

Do you have a favorite poem?