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My education was
a disaster right

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from the first grade right
to the last year of college.

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I simply was not able to
produce what was wanted,

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and I suffered,
therefore, publicly

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and privately for this.

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And this is a poem
about my education,

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which pretty well sums up
the whole business for me.

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And it's called
"Zimmer's Head Thudding

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Against the Blackboard".

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[LAUGHTER]

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"At the blackboard, I had missed
five number problems in a row

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and was about to
foul a sixth when

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the old exasperated nun began
to pound my head against my six

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mistakes.

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When I cried, she threw
me back into my seat

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where I hit my head and swore
that very day I'd be a poet

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and curse her yellow
teeth with this."

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[LAUGHTER]

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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