Math Homework and More (A fun poem about a not-fun situation)
Take a day and homework multiplies
Add in your hours at work
Subtract the hours you sleep
School, 7 hours times 5
Classes, 8 by 5 days
Allow me to ask you an equation
If a train of work is coming at 42 mph
And it decreases by one assignment a day
If I subtract a day
To how many minutes does the work add up?
15 minutes times 8 is two hours
I have not two hours to add to my day.
When will that train hit the wall?
The wall made of papers and papers past due?
To me I know not, the math is for you.
I have but twenty-four hours a day
School takes away eight
Take away sleep, there goes another seven
Now what to do?
I’ve got less now than eleven
9 hours to go, work takes away three
Only 6 hours, a couple I need free
4 hours to go, breakfast lunch and dinner
2 and a half hours won’t work
I need to try harder to make this thing work
I’ll add in some hours, somewhere, somehow
I’ll come out on top, and emerge as a winner.
But boy I should have done my math homework sooner
All together I made it through, but what a mess
Now all my other stuff, too, I guess
