Discriminations

All the top dollar salaries,
The doctors and the engineers,
The jobs that little kids want
To achieve when they grow up,
Demand mathematical logic
And order scientific analysis.
To build the tallest building
Insists that you solve
A series of equations.
To save a bleeding-to-death victim
Of a drunk driving accident
Measures your knowledge of pints
And quarts and gallons.
Discrimination, that’s what it is.
Algebra for Dummies is no joke.
But though it graces my overflowing bookshelves,
I learned in its pages that I’m worse that a dummy.
When it comes to adding, to subtracting and multiplying
My brain reveals me as an ignoramus.