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MAGIC BY SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Magic

 

Read this to yourself.

Read it silently.

Don’t move your lips.

Don’t make a sound?

Listen to yourself.

Listen without hearing anything.

What a wonderfully weird thing, huh?

 

NOW MAKE THIS PART LOUD!

SCREAM IT IN YOUR MIND!

DROWN EVERYTHING OUT.

Now, hear a whisper.

A tiny whisper.

 

Now, read this next line in your best crotchety old man voice:

 

“Hello there sonny, does this town have a post office?”

 

Awesome! Who was that?

Whose voice was that?

Certainly not yours.

 

How do you do that?

How!?

 

Must be magic!!

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Written by the wonderful poet, Shel Silverstein.

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