Benchmarks

In honor of all the tests Jake is taking this week (and all the studying we are doing together):

World's Hardest Test, by Kenn Nesbitt

Preparing today for the standardized test
our teacher said there was a lot to digest.

We'd have to divide by the square root of three

and learn to spell zygote, facade and marquis.

We'd need to play xylophone, trumpet and flute,

accordion, banjo, piano, and lute,

recite all the capital cities by heart

and learn to take rocketship engines apart.

We'd have to speak Latin, Swahili, and Greek,

learn nuclear fusion and fencing technique,

remember the fables of Persia and Rome,

and crack all the codes in the human genome.

Then just when we thought that our heads might explode

from learning Chinese or dissecting a toad

she told us the very best thing she could say:

that she was just kidding; it's April Fool's Day.