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Melinda Mae

by Shel Silverstein

on Where The Sidewalk Ends (1984)

Have you heard of tiny Melinda Mae
Who ate a monstrous whale?
She thought she could, she said she would
So she started in right at the tail

And everyone said "You're much too small"
But that didn't bother Melinda at all
She took little bites and she chewed very slow
Just like a good girl should

And in eighty-nine years she ate that whale
Because she said she would