The Meehoo with an Exactlywatt

The Meehoo with an Exactlywatt - context Summary

Published in Where the Sidewalk Ends

This short, playful poem stages a circular knock‑knock joke that dissolves into nonsense conversation. The speaker and respondent trade repeated questions and nonanswers, turning a familiar joke format into absurdist wordplay that ends where it began. Its tone and structure aim squarely at child readers, inviting giggles through repetition and contradiction. It appeared in Shel Silverstein’s 1974 children’s collection Where the Sidewalk Ends.