European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday. October 5. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 my Mother says i m sickening my Mother says i m crude she says this when she sees me playing Ping Pong with my food. She does t seem to like it when i slurp my bowl of Stew and now she s got a list of things she says i must t do. 545 rms of do Billy Horn by 4�ck Prilutsky gives his poems a i Ely Reading. _. And also provides his own musical accompaniment us he entertains your stars at Kaiserslautern rhyme with reason children s poet in t averse to a Little humor by be Ity Kaist slam Tom Bureau in Prilutsky mumbled upon writing poetry 20 years ago and another quirk of Fate led him to a publisher s office and the first of his three do in books for children. Bui 10 years ago he Cali cd he had no idea if kids really liked my stuff even though the books were being bought by parent.-, teachers and librarians. That s when he began visiting classrooms. Prelutsky 45, now spends up o half of Ocre car noting 100 to 200 schools across the United states. I in is on a three week Lour of Dodds elementary schools in Germany. Prilutsky u Bronx native who now lives in album cur Juc n.m., has a Talent for bringing the printed word to life by acting out his poems or putting them o music and singing As he the guitar. Six Hundred students in grades three through six were in constant giggles thursday As the bearded Man with yellow suspenders and red socks brought his Road show to elementary school. Children familiar with his poems repeated some lines joined him in sound effects and even a favor Ite Homework of Homework Homework of Homework / Hale you you stink / wish i could Wain you it Way in the sink it Only a bomb would explode you to bits. Homework of Homework you re firing me fits. A College claim iut or Chulsky worked i s tells them Llie As Lac occur Ooms and in school libraries ups of gifted children As he his two performances he Lance of writing Down ideas m not really Able to do any finished work on the mad he . When i gel Home i Block out four to six to eight weeks of time to write. I literally live in my Bathrobe. I write 16 hours a while writing i a Slutsky moves from his word processor to a rial mar for rewriting. He stresses planning an rewriting in his talks with kids. I talk about the importance of he said no matter How much you do it s very rare that it comes out right the first but his finished work such As the second verse of hits the Mark with his audience i d rather take Baths with a Man eating shark or u resale a lion alone in the dark eat spinach and liver Pel ten porcupines than tackle the Homework my teacher assigns even the teachers smiled
