Oh sure, high school has taught me a lot—
Everything from analyzing plot
To finding the tension in a rope
And acceleration down a slope.
Calculate opportunity cost?
Easy as finding the force on astronauts.
Thanks to high school, I know about
Actin and myosin in trout,
Cosine, the War of the Stray Dog,
Angiosperms, and natural log.
It taught me how chemicals react
And the reasoning behind the Homestead Act.
I’ve studied Antigone,
Matrices, soliloquy,
Convergent evolution,
Some aqueous solutions,
Metaphor, electron transport chains,
McCarthyism, acceleration, and veins.
I can define tintinnabulation
And do intricate multiplication.
I understand preterite, simile,
Conic sections, genomes, infinity,
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium,
Limits, and the properties of lithium.
I’ve learned stoichiometry, natural selection,
The unit circle, certain presidential elections,
The fundamental theorem of calculus, secant,
The quadratic formula, the life cycle of a plant,
The initial function of Versailles,
Trigonometric identities, and pi.
I can explain atomic mass, the Great Compromise,
Gauss-Jordan elimination, why things oxidize,
And the countercurrent heat exchanger in fishes.
Now tell me, how exactly does one wash the dishes?