Read a book, learn a rule,
Earn a fortune, but don’t use your tools.
Answer the question, get a good grade,
Look at your life, by what you’re paid.
If by chance, you make it through,
Textbooks, not poems, will prove you true,
You’ll end up a scholar, a professor divine,
— And how you got there, you won’t have a clue.
Akash Mehta is 10 years old.
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