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It's always easier to sell them some shit than it is to give them the truth."''
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* AnAesop: Quite often, though sometimes sliding into HardTruthAesop.
** In "The Great Smoke Off":
--->''And underneath his fingers\\
There's a little golden scroll\\
That says, "Beware of being the roller\\
When there's nothing left to roll."''
** From "That Perfect High":
--->''"Well, that is that," says [[HermitGuru Baba Fats]], sitting back down on his stone,\\
Facing another thousand years of talking to God alone.\\
"It seems, Lord," says Fats, "it's always the same, old men or bright-eyed youth,\\
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Fans of his mainstream work may be rather [[BleachedUnderpants stunned to hear]] that many of his songs are ''very'' adult in tone, and that he personally was a real-life ChickMagnet who lived for several years in the actual [[Magazine/{{Playboy}} Playboy Mansion]] while writing and drawing for the magazine. He died from a heart attack in May 1999 and was buried in a Chicago cemetery.

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Fans of his mainstream work may be rather [[BleachedUnderpants stunned to hear]] hear that many of his songs are ''very'' adult in tone, and that he personally was a real-life ChickMagnet who lived for several years in the actual [[Magazine/{{Playboy}} Playboy Mansion]] while writing and drawing for the magazine. He died from a heart attack in May 1999 and was buried in a Chicago cemetery.
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Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was best known as an author of offbeat children's poetry. He also wrote picture books, songs, song lyrics (most famously "[[Music/JohnnyCash A Boy Named Sue]]", "The Unicorn" and "The Cover of Rolling Stone"), one-act plays and films.

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Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was best known as an author of offbeat children's poetry.{{poetry}}. He also wrote picture books, songs, song lyrics (most famously "[[Music/JohnnyCash A Boy Named Sue]]", "The Unicorn" and "The Cover of Rolling Stone"), one-act plays and films.

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* AnAesop: Quite often, though sometimes sliding into HardTruthAesop. For example, in "The Great Smoke Off":
--> ''And underneath his fingers\\

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* AnAesop: Quite often, though sometimes sliding into HardTruthAesop. For example, in HardTruthAesop.
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"The Great Smoke Off":
--> ''And --->''And underneath his fingers\\



** And another, from "That Perfect High":

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** And another, from From "That Perfect High":

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* ''A Giraffe and a Half'' (1964)


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* ''Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?'' (1964)


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* ''The Missing Piece'' (1976)


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* ''The Missing Piece Meets the Big O'' (1981)

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* OnePersonBirthdayParty: In "Happy Birthday", nobody comes to the narrator's birthday party. He doesn't care because he gets to eat all the ice cream and tea.
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* BlackComedyCannibalism: The final verse of his song "You're Always Welcome at Our House", already a prime example of morbid humor, implies in the final verse that the family intends to cook and eat the listener should they ever show up at their house.

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* BlackComedyCannibalism: The final verse of his song "You're Always Welcome at Our House", already a prime example of morbid humor, implies in the final verse that the family intends to cook and eat the listener should they ever show up at their house.
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* BlackComedyCannibalism: The final verse of his song "You're Always Welcome at Our House", already a prime example of morbid humor, implies in the final verse that the family intends to cook and eat the listener should they ever show up at their house.
-->''So when you come to our house, our house, our house\\
When you come to our house, we'll have some fun\\
We'll ask you to come in\\
And we'll take you to the kitchen\\
And we'll put you in the oven until you're done''
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Fans of his mainstream work may be rather [[BleachedUnderpants stunned to hear]] that many of his songs are ''very'' adult in tone, and that he personally was a real-life ChickMagnet who lived for several years in the actual [[Magazine/{{Playboy}} Playboy Mansion]]. He died from a heart attack in May 1999 and was buried in a Chicago cemetery.

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Fans of his mainstream work may be rather [[BleachedUnderpants stunned to hear]] that many of his songs are ''very'' adult in tone, and that he personally was a real-life ChickMagnet who lived for several years in the actual [[Magazine/{{Playboy}} Playboy Mansion]].Mansion]] while writing and drawing for the magazine. He died from a heart attack in May 1999 and was buried in a Chicago cemetery.
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* PrefersGoingBarefoot: Some characters in his illustrations rarely wear shoes. Shel himself is often seen barefoot in several photographs.

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* PrefersGoingBarefoot: Some characters in his illustrations rarely wear shoes. Shel himself is often seen barefoot in several photographs.

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