Looking Forward to Saturday

I'm Sick.

"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more—that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke—
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is—what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is . . . Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"

From
Where the Sidewalk Ends
by
Shel Silverstein