School Photo Day

“I cannot go to school today,"
Said Grant.
“I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I’ve counted sixteen chicken pox
And don’t you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut--my eyes are blue--
It might be instamatic flu.
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 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.
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!”

Shel Silverstein