History Politics Geography
HISTORY POLITICS GEOGRAPHY
Some guy once said there's lies, damn lies, and statistics
But he surely meant lies, damn lies, and politics;
And since all the people are dead in history
Why to study it remains a mystery.
Where the greatest truth and topography
Is found is in studying the field of geography :
Full of tectonics where Atlantic’s separating plates both
Move as fast as your fingernails’ growth;
Full of atmospherics with winds turned by coriolis
And electric shimmers called aurora borealis;
Full of maps showing countries’ boundaries and capitals
Such as tropical Nicaragua’s or Himalayan Nepal’s;
Full of guys like Walter Christaller who study locations of cities
And can tell Chicagoans why their city is where it is;
Full of cool pictures from NASA or Hubble
Showing whether there’s going to be weather trouble;
Full of V-shaped valleys riverine, U-shaped valleys glacial
And C-shaped barchan dunes, all neatly alphabetical.
When your solo study with textbook is proving to be boring
Your grades get higher and easier and you’ll enjoy the scoring
If you start to do a bit of fieldwork in any part of your world,
Because geography is all around you, ready unfurled:
So much interesting knowledge : all I could ever have wished:
Spent a lifetime studying it and still nowhere near finished.
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Written by Sydney Peck for
Dana'lynn Smith's Contest Politically Educated
Copyright © Sidney Beck | Year Posted 2012
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