The missing piece **Shel Silverstein**
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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the missing piece by Shel Silverstein. It was missing a piece and it was not happy. Mhm. So it's set off in search of its missing piece. And as it rolled, it sang this song. Oh, I'm looking for my missing piece. I'm looking for my missing piece. Heidi ho here I go. Looking for my missing piece. Sometimes it baked in the sun. But then the cool rain would come down and sometimes it was frozen by the snow. But then the sun would come and warm it again. And because it was missing a piece, it could not roll very fast so it would stop to talk to a worm or smell of flour and sometimes it would pass a beetle. Mm And sometimes the beetle would pass it. And this was the best time of all. And on it went over oceans. Oh, I'm looking for my missing piece. Over land and overseas. So grease my knees and fleece my bees. I'm looking for my missing piece. Through swamps and jungles, mm hmm Up mountains and down mountains. Until one day, lo and behold, I found my missin piece. It sang. I found my missin piece. So grease my knees and fleece my bees. I found my wait a minute. Said the piece. Before you go, grease in your knees and fleece in your bees. I am not your missing piece. I am nobody's missing piece. I am my own piece. And even if I was someone's missing piece, I don't think I'd be yours. Oh, it said sadly, I'm sorry to have bothered you. And on it rolled it found another piece. But this one was too small and this one was too big and this one was too sharp and this one was too square. one time it seemed to have found the perfect piece, but it didn't hold in tightly enough and lost it. Another time it held too tightly and it broke so on and on it rolled, having adventures falling into holes and bumping into stone walls. And then one day it came upon another piece that seemed to be just right. Hi, It said hi said the peace. Are you anyone else is missing piece? Not that I know of. Well, maybe you want to be your own piece. I can be someone's and still be my own. Well maybe you don't want to be mine. Maybe I do. Maybe you won't fit well. Hmm, mm hmm. It fit it fit perfectly at last at last. And away it rolled and because it was now complete, it rolled faster and faster, faster than it had ever rolled before. So fast it could not stop to talk to a worm or smell a flower too fast for a butterfly to land. But it could sing. It's happy song at last it could sing. And it began to sing. I found my news ingres of roaming mind. Busan bees so christened my knees and bliss injuries and from oh my! Now that it was complete, it could not sing at all. Ah it thought so that's how it was. So it stopped rolling and it set the piece down gently and slowly rolled away. And as it rolled it softly sang. Oh I'm looking for my missing piece. I'm looking for my missing piece. Heidi ho here I go, looking for my missing piece.