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EARLY SIXTIES IN SEARCH OF KNOWLEDGE

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In the search for knowledge
Off I went to college
But skipped time in the library
It was much more fun in the gym
I'd gone to school on a whim
This boy was getting wary
Boeing once again on retooling
I figured future would need reschooling
Cheerleaders, girls everywhere
Maybe they had some knowledge to share
Algebra to me a little confusing
Was it letters or numbers I was choosing?
So for a day or two I went out boozing
That's part of being in college I guess
I was flunking every test
It was unnerving I have to confess
My adviser said I wasn't doing my best
So I opened a book or two
I am into learning not a fool
I was going to find a job teaching, learning the tool
I took a Creative writing class or two
My love of writing grew and grew
My love of Calculus and math given the shoe
All that opening of books takes allot out of you
Today I wish I had studied better
No one cares about a Letterman's sweater
I finally did find the time to teach
To all my Little League-rs I did preach
Athletics are fun outside playing in the sun
Getting ahead it is school work gets it done
Went back and got an associates degree
I am not perfect that was enough school for me
I can read write, but as I said, Algebra did nothing you see
Calculas was another language I know some of you agree
But math lowered my grade point to 2.3
Proving how smart this fool did be
I also took Calculus and then Chemistry
Who would have guessed Spanish a foreign language?
To show how smart I became after college
In my eternal search for knowledge
Discovered Geometry was not the study of rocks
But I still don't understand how English
became a foreign language, now foreignish
Calculus that! back to the workforce I was at.
All this thinking had me pinned on the mat
I well not learn Spanish enough of all that!









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