He said in writing doggerel yourself you immerse <br />And I must say that you write such trashy verse <br />And you waste such effort and such precious time <br />In writing reams and reams of slipshod rhyme. <br /> <br />For your efforts you don't have much to show <br />For on Nature's verses there's not much I don't know <br />Since on natural sciences I have a degree <br />And I know the latin names of every bird and beast and tree. <br /> <br />You've written on 'strepera graculina' the pied currawong <br />And about the beauty of 'gymnorhina tibicen' the Australian magpie's song <br />And such things I've known since I was five or so <br />But tell us something that we do not know <br /> <br />His self proclaimed knowledge I won't long recall <br />For he seemed to me a regular know it all <br />And to argue with him would not waste my time <br />I'd much prefer to write a slipshod rhyme. <br /> <br />The more we know the less we know we know I learnt as a boy <br />But 'twould seem to him this saying did not apply <br />And between reality and arrogance he has to discern <br />For like us all he too has lots to learn.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-regular-know-it-all/
