Education

I will never understand,

Why everyone around me can recite the quadratic formula,

"Negative B plus or minus the square root of B squared minus four AC over two A.",

Yet not one of us can apply for a job.

When asked, 

We can tell you what anything in Romeo and Juliet means in modern English,

Because knowing that "Wherefore" means why, and not where,

Is more important than paying taxes.

But maybe I'm wrong,

Maybe when I apply for that apartment down the street, 

They'll simply ask if I know who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,

And who I think should've won,

"Rosalind Franklin", I'll say,

And I'll have the place.

Correct me if I'm wrong,

Because really, 

I wouldn't know, 

But I don't think that's how the world works.