• This morning is our history test.
    I've pinned my notes inside my vest.
    Inside my coat I wrote my notes,
    including dates and famous quotes.
    I've written more upon my hand
    that only I can understand,
    and in my socks and sleeves I stowed
    my scribbled notes in secret code.

    I've written down so many names
    of winners of Olympic games,
    of buildings, people, places too,
    from Tennessee to Timbuktu.
    I even copied down a piece
    on ancient Rome and ancient Greece,
    plus everything from Shakespeare's plays
    to who invented mayonnaise.

    I came to school so well prepared.
    I wasn't nervous, wasn't scared.
    But here it is, the history test.
    I look inside my coat and vest
    to get the dates and famous quotes
    and find I cannot read my notes.
    So much for Shakespeare, Greece and Rome.
    I left my glasses back at home.