Hungry Mungry

Hungry Mungry is the villain protagonist of Shel Silverstein's eponymous poem. He is mostly known for eating everything in sight, whether it's alive, natural or artificial edible and inedible. 

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Hungry Mungry sat at supper, took his knife and fork,

Ate a bowl of mushroom soup, ate a slice of roasted pork, 

Ate a dozen stewed tomatoes and twenty-seven deviled eggs, 

Fifteen shrimps, nine baked potatoes,

Thirty-two fried chicken legs, 

Shank of lamb, boiled ham,

Two bowls of grits, some black-eyed peas, 

Four chocolate shakes, eight angle cakes, nine custard pies with muenster cheese,

Ten pots of tea, and after he had eaten all that he was able, 

He poured some broth on the tablecloth

And ate the kitchen table. 

Part one, part two!

His parents said, "Oh Hungry Mungry, stop these silly jokes."

Mungry opened his mouth, and "Gulp," he ate his folks. 

And then he went and ate his house all the bricks and wood,

And then he ate all the people in the neighborhood. 

And up came twenty angry policemen shouting "Stop and cease."

Mungry opened his mouth and "Gulp," he ate the police.  Soldiers came with tanks and guns. Said Mungry "They can't harm me!" 

He smiled and licked his chops and ate the US Army.

The President sent all his bombers: Mungry still was calm. 

Put his head back, gulped the planes and gobbled up the bomb. 

He ate the town and ate the city, ate and ate and ate,

And then he said, "I think I'll eat the whole United States."

And so he ate Chicago first and munched the Water Tower,

And then he chewed on Pittsburgh but he found it rather sour.

Ah,  He ate New York and Tennessee and all of Boston Town,

Then he drank the Mississippi just to wash it down.

And then once he'd eaten every state, each puppy, boy, and girl,

He wiped his mouth upon his sleeve and went to eat the world. There is something for you.

He ate the Egypt Pyramids and every church in Rome,

And all the grass in Africa and all the ice in Nome,

He ate each hill in green Brazil and then to make things worse

He decided for the dessert he'd eat the UNIVERSE!!!

He started with the moon and stars and as soon as he was done,

He gobbled the clouds and sipped the wind and chopped up the sun. And sitting there in the cold dark air,

He started to nibble his feet,

Until nothing was left, but the sound of a BURP,

Nothing was left to eat. 

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