This morning is our history test
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.