Dear daddy

Did you ever hear of michelangelo

He was a famous artist who lived in

Italy in the middle ages

The whole class laughed because

I thought he was an archangel

Doesn't he sound like one

Even more embarrassing

Somebody mentioned florence nightingale

And I asked if she was a freshman

That joke has gone all over college

You wouldn't believe daddy

What an abyss of ignorance my mind is

The things that most girls with

A properly assorted family and friends and a library know by absorption

I've never even heard of

I didn't know that henry viii

Was married more than once

Or shelley was a poet

I didn't know alexander the

Great had conquered most of greece

Or people came from monkeys

I didn't know that the garden of

Eden was all just a beautiful myth

I never read great expectations

Summer on the lake

Euripides' electra

I never met the two noble kinsmen

Or ever came across the merry wives of windsor

I always feel like I'm alice in wonderland

Stranded in vanity fair

Once upon a time

O captain my captain

I'm so many years behind

I'm still so many years behind

I didn't know that she'd be so clever

I never dreamed of such imagination

I never read thoughts so expressive

I really must up stand

When maybe onemore letter

What am I thinking I'm missing appointments

To read what she studied in french

I'm baffled and perplexed

O captain my captain

I really must get back to work

I wonder what she'll write me next

I never heard of meg jo beth or amy

I'd never been to dover beach

Or heard the phrase

A man's reach should exceed his grasp

I feel like the idiot

Or the toilers of the sea

O captain my captain

All the world is verse to me

A lady with a lamp I see

Now daddy I must sleep

But I will think of you

For daddy I know there is so much catching up to do