Poem: “Stuck” by Edgar A. Guest

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Stuck

  I’m up against it day by day,
    My ignorance is distressing;
  The things I don’t know on the way
    I’m busily confessing.
  Time was I used to think I knew
    Some useful bits of knowledge
  And could be sure of one or two
    Real facts I’d gleaned in college.
  But I’m unfitted for the task
  Of answering things my boy can ask.

  Now, who can answer queries queer
    That four-year-olds can think up?
  And tell in simple phrase and clear
    Why fishes do not drink up
  The water in the streams and lakes,
    Or where the wind is going,
  And tell exactly how God makes
    The roses that are growing?
  I’m sure I cannot satisfy
  Each little when, and how, and why.

  Had I the wisdom of a sage
    Possessed of all the learning
  That can be gleaned from printed page
    From bookworm’s closest turning,
  That eager knowledge-seeking lad
    That questions me so gayly
  Could still go round and boast he had
    With queries floored me daily.
  He’ll stick, I’ll bet, in less than five
  Brief minutes any man alive.

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