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Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out by Shel Silverstein (1974): poems
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Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out by Shel Silverstein (1974): poems
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
Would not take the garbage out.
She'd wash the dishes and scrub the pans
Cook the yams and spice the hams,
And though her parents would scream and shout,
She simply would not take the garbage out.
And so it piled up to the ceiling:
Coffee grounds, potato peelings,
Brown bananas and rotten peas,
Chunks of sour cottage cheese.
It filled the can, it covered the floor,
It cracked the windows and blocked the door,
With bacon rinds and chicken bones,
Drippy ends of ice cream cones,
Prune pits, peach pits, orange peels,
Gloppy glumps of cold oatmeal,
Pizza crusts and withered greens,
Soggy beans, and tangerines,
Crusts of black-burned buttered toast,
Gristly bits of beefy roast.
The garbage rolled on down the halls,
It raised the roof, it broke the walls,
I mean, greasy napkins, cookie crumbs,
Blobs of gooey bubble gum,
Cellophane from old bologna,
Rubbery, blubbery macaroni,
Peanut butter, caked and dry,
Curdled milk, and crusts of pie,
Rotting melons, dried-up mustard,
Eggshells mixed with lemon custard,
Cold French fries and rancid meat,
Yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat.
At last the garbage reached so high
That finally it touched the sky,
And none of her friends would come to play,
And all of her neighbors moved away;
And finally, Sarah Cynthia Stout
Said, "Okay, I'll take the garbage out!"
But then, of course it was too late,
The garbage reached across the state,
From New York to the Golden Gate;
And there in the garbage she did hate
Poor Sarah met an awful fate
That I cannot right now relate
Because the hour is much too late
But children, remember Sarah Stout,
And always take the garbage out.
Vocabulary
awful - very bad, of low quality, or unpleasant:
The film was absolutely awful.
bacon - meat from a pig cut into long thin slices
bacon rind - The tough outer skin of pork or bacon
banana - a long, curved fruit with a yellow skin
bean - a part of some climbing plants that contains the seeds and is eaten as a vegetable:
Eat your green beans.
beefy - tasting like beef
bit - a small amount or piece of something:
I wrote it down on a bit of paper.
blob - a small amount of a thick liquid:
This is a blob of glue.
block - to prevent anyone or anything from passing through a place:
A fallen tree blocked the road.
blubbery - 1 : having or characterized by blubber. 2 : puffed out : thick.
bone - one of the hard pieces that make the structure inside a person or animal:
He broke a bone in his hand.
brown - being the same colour as chocolate or soil:
This is a brown leather bag.
bubble - a ball of air or gas with liquid around it:
This is an air bubbe.
bubble gum - a sweet that you chew and blow into a bubble
burn - If you burn something that you are cooking, you cook it too much and if something you are cooking burns, it cooks too much:
Check the pizza - I think it's burning!
butter - a soft, pale yellow food made from cream that you put on bread and use in cooking:
Do you prefer margarine or butter?
butter - to put a layer of butter on something:
I love hot buttered toast.
caked - to be covered with a thick, dry layer of something:
His boots were caked in mud.
ceiling - the surface of a room that you can see when you look above you
Cellophane - a brand name for a type of thin, transparent material that is used for wrapping goods, especially flowers and food
cheese - a food that is made from milk, is usually white or yellow, and can be either hard or soft:
This is a cheese sandwich.
chicken - a bird kept on a farm for its meat and eggs
Outside chickens were pecking at corn.
chunk - a large piece of something:
This is a chunk of cheese.
coffee grounds - the small grains of coffee left at the bottom of a cup or other container that has had coffee in it
cold - having a low temperature:
This soup has gone cold.
cone - a solid shape with a round or oval base that narrows to a point, or an object that has this shape:
This is a row of traffic cones.
cook - to prepare food and usually heat it:
Who's cooking this evening?
cookie - a thin, flat cake that is dry and usually sweet:
He passed round a plate of cookies.
cottage - a small house, usually in the countryside
cottage cheese - a soft, white cheese with small lumps in it
course - something that you can do in a particular situation:
I think the best course of action would be to write to him.
cover - to put something over something else, in order to protect or hide it:
They covered him with a blanket.
crack - to break something so that it does not separate, but very thin lines appear on its surface, or to become broken in this way:
The concrete had started to crack.
cream - a thick, yellowish-white liquid that is taken from milk:
I like raspberries and cream.
cream of wheat - a type of breakfast porridge mix made from wheat semolina. It looks similar to grits, but is smoother in texture since it is made with ground wheat kernels instead of ground corn.
crumb - a very small piece of bread, cake, etc
crust - the hard outer surface of bread or other baked foods
curdle - If a liquid curdles, or if you curdle it, it gets thicker and develops lumps:
Heat the sauce slowly or it will curdle.
custard - a sweet, yellow sauce made from milk and eggs, usually eaten hot with sweet food:
Apple pie and custard is for dessert.
dish - a curved container for eating or serving food from:
She placed a large dish in front of me.
door - the part of a building, room, vehicle, or piece of furniture that you open or close to get inside it or out of it:
Please shut the door behind you.
drippy - tending to drip:
This is drippy food.
dry - Something that is dry does not have water or liquid in it or on its surface:
Is your hair dry yet?
eggshell - the hard outer covering of an egg
fate - what happens to someone, especially when it is something bad:
His fate is now in the hands of the jury.
fill - to make a container or space full, or to become full:
He filled the bucket with water.
finally - after a long time or some difficulty:
We finally got home just after midnight.
floor - a surface that you walk on inside a building:
I must sweep the kitchen floor.
fries - long, thin pieces of potato that have been cooked in hot oil:
A hamburger and regular fries, please.
garbage - things that you throw away because you do not want them:
Don't forget to take out the garbage.
gate - the part of a fence or outside wall that opens and closes like a door:
Please shut the gate.
gloppy - A soft soggy mixture, as of food
glump - a gooey lump of something
golden - made of gold or like gold:
This is a golden ring.
gooey - soft and sticky:
This is a sweet, gooey sauce.
greasy - containing or covered with fat or oil:
This is greasy food.
greens - green leaves that are cooked and eaten as a vegetable
ground - soil:
The ground was frozen hard and was impossible to dig.
gristly - full of gristle (= a solid white substance in meat that is difficult to eat):
This looked delicious on the package until I took a bite and found chunks of gristly chicken meat.
gum - a sweet substance that you chew (= bite repeatedly) but do not swallow:
This is a stick of gum.
hall - a room or passage in a building, which leads to other rooms:
I left my coat and umbrella in the hall.
ham - meat from a pig's back or upper leg:
This is a ham sandwich.
hate - to dislike someone or something very much:
They've hated each other since they were kids.
ice - water that has frozen and become solid:
Gerry slipped on the ice and broke his arm.
ice cream - a sweet food made from frozen milk or cream and sugar:
This is vanilla ice cream.
ice cream cone - a small, cone-shaped, edible container that holds ice cream:
Who wants an ice cream cone?
lemon - an oval, yellow fruit that has sour juice:
This is a slice of lemon.
lump - a piece of a solid substance with no particular shape:
You don't want lumps in the sauce.
macaroni - pasta that is shaped like small tubes
meat - muscles and other soft parts of animals, used as food:
I don't eat meat.
meet a fate - to die, or have something terrible happen to you.
The beautiful old building will meet a sad fate if it was sold off to property developers.
melon - a large, round, sweet fruit with a thick, green or yellow skin and a lot of seeds
milk - a white liquid produced by women and other female animals, such as cows, for feeding their babies:
This is a carton of milk.
bologna - a cooked, smoked sausage (= mixed meat in a tube shape) that is sliced and eaten cold:
Lunch was a bologna sandwich and cold soda.
mixed - made of a combination of different people or things:
This is a mixed salad.
mustard - a thick, spicy, yellow or brown sauce often eaten in small amounts with meat:
This is a teaspoon of mustard.
napkin - a piece of cloth or paper used when you eat to keep your clothes clean and to clean your mouth and hands:
This is a paper napkin.
neighbor - someone who lives very near you, especially in the next house:
Our next-door neighbors are always arguing.
none - not any:
None of them smoke.
oatmeal - a soft, white food made of oats (= type of grain) and water or milk (uk porridge)
of course - used to show that what you are saying is obvious or already known:
The rain meant, of course, that the match was cancelled.
okay - used when agreeing to do something or when allowing someone to do something:
"Let's meet this afternoon." "Okay."
orange - a round, sweet fruit with a thick skin and a centre that is divided into many equal parts:
This is orange juice.
pan - a metal container with a handle that is used for cooking food in
parent - your mother or father:
Her parents live in Oxford.
pea - a small, round, green seed that people eat as a vegetable
peach - a soft, sweet, round fruit with red and yellow skin
peanut - an oval-shaped nut with a soft, brown shell:
These are salted peanuts.
peanut butter - a pale brown food made by crushing peanuts:
This is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
peel - the skin of fruit or vegetables, especially after it has been removed:
Combine nuts, sugar, and orange peel in a small bowl.
peeling - a peeled-off piece or strip
pie - a type of food made with meat, vegetables, or fruit which is covered in pastry and baked:
This is an apple pie.
pile - an amount of a substance in the shape of a small hill or a number of objects on top of each other:
This is a pile of books.
pile up - to make a lot of things into a pile by putting them on top of each other:
Just pile those books up over there.
pit - a large, hard seed that grows inside some types of fruit and vegetables (uk stone)
pizza - a food made from a flat, round piece of bread covered with cheese, vegetables, etc and cooked in an oven
pizza crust - the bready layer that forms the foundation of a pizza.
play - If children play, they enjoy themselves with toys and games:
She likes playing with her dolls.
poor - used to show sympathy for someone:
That cold sounds terrible, you poor thing.
potato - a round vegetable with a brown, yellow, or red skin that grows in the ground:
I love fried potatoes.
prune - a dried plum (= type of fruit)
raise - to lift something to a higher position:
The roof is raised using a large crane.
rancid - rancid fat, such as oil or butter, smells and tastes bad because it is not fresh.
reach - If something reaches, or reaches something, it is long enough to touch something:
The rope won't be long enough to reach the ground.
relate - to tell a story or describe a series of events
roast - a piece of roasted meat:
We usually have a roast for lunch on Sunday.
roll - to move somewhere by turning in a circular direction, or to make something move this way:
The ball rolled through the goalkeeper's legs.
roof - the surface that covers the top of a building or vehicle:
He climbed onto the roof.
rotten - Rotten vegetable or animal substances are decaying:
I smell rotten eggs.
rot - If vegetable or animal substances rot, they decay:
The fruit had been left to rot on the trees.
rubbery - feeling or bending like rubber:
This is a rubbery piece of meat.
scream - to make a loud, high noise with your voice, or to shout something in a loud, high voice because you are afraid, hurt, or angry:
Someone was screaming in the street.
scrub - to clean something by rubbing it hard with a brush:
Someone needs to scrub the floor.
shout - to say something very loudly:
"Look out!" she shouted.
simply - used to emphasize what you are saying:
We simply don't have the time
sky - the area above the Earth where you can see clouds, the sun, the moon, etc:
I can see a beautiful, blue sky.
soggy - very wet and soft:
Careful on the soggy ground.
sour - having a sharp, sometimes unpleasant, taste or smell, like a lemon, and not sweet:
These plums are a bit sour.
spice - to add spice to something:
The apples were spiced with nutmeg and cinnamon.
state - one of the parts that some countries such as the US are divided into:
Alaska is the largest state in the US.
take out - to remove something from somewhere:
He is going to reach into his bag and take out a book.
take the garbage out - to take the garbage out of the house and put it on the side of the road where it can be collected by the garbage truck
tangerine - a fruit like a small orange
toast - bread that has been heated to make it brown:
Can I have a slice of toast?
touch - If two things touch, they are so close to each other that there is no space between them:
These two wires must not touch.
wall - one of the vertical sides of a room or building:
There were several large paintings on the wall.
wash - to make something clean using water, or water and soap:
Dad was washing the dishes.
wheat - a plant whose grain is used for making flour, or the grain itself
window - a space in the wall of a building or vehicle that has glass in it, used for letting light and air inside and for looking through:
Open the window if you're too hot.
wither - If a plant withers, it becomes dry and starts to die.
yam - an orange vegetable with yellow flesh that tastes slightly sweet
yellow - being the same colour as a lemon or the sun:
This is a bright yellow tablecloth.
New York - a city in the northeastern US that is an important centre for finance, culture, and entertainment:
I plan on staying in New York for some time.
Golden Gate - a strait on the west coast of North America that connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean
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