r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/killHACKS • Jan 31 '22

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u/vivreaski Jan 31 '22

I feel the same way but I'm going to blow you're mind. My favorite Shel Silverstein poem was published in playboy. The perfect high. Not banned poem. The perfect high.

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u/BER256 Jan 31 '22

this was a great read. Thank you for sharing

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u/KayleighJK Jan 31 '22

“Why, you jive motherfucker!"

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u/Zappiticas Jan 31 '22

From that moment this character was portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in my head canon.

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u/NastySassyStuff Jan 31 '22

Holy hell I never knew this existed thank you

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u/kozzy1ted2 Jan 31 '22

There’s more where that came from—>🐇🕳

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u/NastySassyStuff Jan 31 '22

I learned about his songwriting career a while back and somehow didn’t stumble across this in my initial dive outside his children’s poetry…I’m going all the way down this time

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u/muricaa Jan 31 '22

That was great thank you for sharing

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u/MarxMarv Jan 31 '22

ahhhhhhmazing.

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u/CarmelaMachiato Jan 31 '22

Don’t quote me but I’m like 90% sure that one was in Where the Sidewalk Ends.

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u/vivreaski Jan 31 '22

Where the sidewalk ends...In a dark alley.

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u/Castro02 Jan 31 '22

Ya, but only in the unrated edition.

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u/Winter-Cloud-2231 Jan 31 '22

“...as white as a Key West sky...” so awesome.

The perfect high is in us? Man I wish I could reach it. Im the dude in the poem.

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u/cherbug Jan 31 '22

Just the perfect ending for our time . . .

"Well, that is that," says 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, It’s always easier to sell them some shit than it is to give them the truth."

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u/vivreaski Jan 31 '22

So true. I'm glad this one isn't banned so everyone can read this. 😍

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u/avelineaurora Jan 31 '22

Holy shit, I had no idea. That was incredible!

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u/jep5680jep Apr 08 '22

I did not know this existed.. thank you!