Shel Silverstein's: Where the Sidewalk Ends

 Poem Title: Peanut-Butter Sandwhich 

 Narrated by Chad Fox

 Reading Real Poetry 

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Peanut-Butter Sandwich

Where The Sidewalk Ends

I'll sing you a poem of a silly young king

Who played with the world at the end of a string,

But he only loved one single thing

And that was just a peanut-butter sandwich.

His scepter and his royal gowns,

His regal throne and golden crowns

Were brown and sticky from the mounds

And drippings from each peanut-butter sandwich.

His subjects all were silly fools

For he had passed a royal rule

That all that they could learn in school

Was how to make a peanut-butter sandwich.

He would not eat his sovereign steak,

He scorned his soup and kingly cake,

And told his courtly cook to bake

An extra-sticky peanut-butter sandwich.

And then one day he took a bite

And started chewing with delight,

But found his mouth was stuck quite tight

From that last bite of peanut-butter sandwich.

His brother pulled, his sister pried,

The wizard pushed, his mother cried,

"My boy's committed suicide

From eating his last peanut-butter sandwich!"

The dentist came, and the royal doc.

The royal plumber banged and knocked,

But still those jaws stayed tightly locked.

Oh darn that sticky peanut-butter sandwich!

The carpenter, he tried with pliers,

The telephone man tried with wires,

The firemen, they tried with fire,

But couldn't melt that peanut-butter sandwich.

With ropes and pulleys, drills and coil,

With steam and lubricating oil

For twenty years of tears and toil

They fought that awful peanut-butter sandwich.

Then all his royal subjects came.

They hooked his jaws with grapplin' chains

And pulled both ways with might and main

Against that stubborn peanut-butter sandwich.

Each man and woman, girl and boy

Put down their ploughs and pots and toys

And pulled until kerack! Oh, joy

They broke right through that peanut-butter sandwhcih

A puff of dust, a screech, a squeak

The king's jaw opened with a creak.

And then in voice so faint and weak

The first words that they heard him speak

Were, "How about a peanut-butter sandwich?"

Poem Title: There is a Moment. 

Narrated by Chad Fox. 

Reading Real Poetry

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There is a moment in every day when I kneel before the love i have for you. Then I remember that I am still that man. And i know that my life's work is to be that man, who leans over a white tablet humbled in his constant and signifying love for you. It is eight twenty-seven in the evening. Once again the thought of you has rescued me from the puzzle of my indeifference

and the hard wheel 

in the chest's center

becomes a soft wheel

God lies down next to his lamb

so the creature can

gather itself

His queen is massaged

by a thousand versions

of Her most devoted drone.

and there you are

smiling at someone else

in my vision of the lost kitchen

and that is the way

I finish my work

until it starts again.