OR Blog #20: Today I read a poem from Shel Silverstein's book Where the Sidewalk Ends. The poem is called "Sick". This was probably the first Shel Silverstein poems I've read. I remember in one of my classes, the teacher read this one aloud to us. It's about a kid so is going on and on about how he/she is sick and at the end when they realize they don't have school that day all of a sudden they feel so much better. The last few lines of the poem are, " What's that? What's that you say? You say today is . . . Saturday? G'bye, I'm going out to play!" The illustrations are always fun to look at. In this one there is a giant bed and all you can see of the kid is his/her eyes and the top of the head. That's what I read today, Wednesday December 17.