Count-Down
Location
Tick, tock, goes the clock
Sixty, Fifty, Forty-two
Pencils scribble furiously
Thirty, twenty, fifteen, ten
Brains scramble rapidly
Nine, eight, seven, six
Checking - double, triple - answers
Oh glories of math class
The stuff of myths and legends
Archimedes, Pythagoras, Euclid -
Or of nightmares.
I can tell you the overwhelming
Opinion in grade-school
Numbers swimming in eyes
Stress over nuances of concepts
Unused outside of class
And word problems - bane of existence
Connecting Life to Math
When nice - unpractical -
When nasty - quite real & horrible
Five, four, three, two
Oh no! A mistake in step
One - Time’s Up!
Tick, tock goes the clock
Counting down - taunting
You’ve learned how to tell time!