My education was a disaster right
from the first grade right to the last year of college.
I simply was not able to produce what was wanted,
and I suffered, therefore, publicly
and privately for this.
And this is a poem about my education,
which pretty well sums up the whole business for me.
And it's called "Zimmer's Head Thudding
Against the Blackboard".
[LAUGHTER]
"At the blackboard, I had missed five number problems in a row
and was about to foul a sixth when
the old exasperated nun began to pound my head against my six
mistakes.
When I cried, she threw me back into my seat
where I hit my head and swore that very day I'd be a poet
and curse her yellow teeth with this."
[LAUGHTER]
[APPLAUSE]
Thank you.