One day while traveling down the knowledge road
Across the streams and rocks I strode
Some were large but most were small
And then I came upon the wall.
The height of it I could compute
It’s mass I knew was not minute
Of brick and mortar it was made
Each one upon the other laid
At first I tried to climb the wall
I’d slip and slide and then I’d fall
Then proceed to fume and cuss
That dreaded wall called calculus!
(Written in 1977 while in engineering school at Tennessee Tech)