Please, help me get this poem out of my head by helping me find the rest of it. I am sure it was written by Shel Silverstein and I can only remember the beginning part: Goodness gracious sakes alive. Mother said come home at five, And now the clock is striking six And I am in a terrible fix! Did I hallucinate this poem in my youth? I cannot find anything on the web. Yes, I have Googled the ba-jinkies out of it. HELP!!
"Tardiness" from Goops and How to Be Them by Gelett Burgess. http://books.google.com/books?id=XAfajtDXkikC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=%22Goodness+gracious+sakes+alive%22+%22come+home+at+five%22&source=web&ots=VfboXDpbnv&sig=dxm1hUE7V4Z1q5YHeDW4s2rCaNY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA75,M1 (I googled it too )
Why do things like that stick in our hard drives? As soon as I got that little ditty out of my head, in popped another one. Thankfully, the internet was more forthcoming this time... Oh, Senor Don Gato was a cat, On a high red roof Don Gato sat, he went there to read a letter meow, meow, meow, where the reading light was better meow, meow, meow. 'Twas a love note for Don Gato!
for future needs: http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/ all you do is paste the excerpt in and google gives you the source...