Noah Lott
Noah Lott is awfully smart
and loves to share his knowledge.
He’s only in the second grade
but ought to be in college.
His brain is like a dictionary
or encyclopedia.
His photographic memory
is also multimedia.
Our teacher thinks he’s wonderful.
She showers him with praise.
On every test and every quiz
she always gives him A’s.
But students, on the otherhand,
consider him a nerd.
We think the things he knows
are more than just a bit absurd.
He bores us all with endless lists
of truly useless trivia,
like names of craters on the moon
and insects in Bolivia.
It’s probably embarrassing
to know as much as him,
but not as bad as being
just a little bit too dim.
Like when the teacher calls on me
and I say, “I forgot.”
I wish that I could be
a little more like Noah Lott.
— Kenn Nesbitt
Copyright © 2006. All Rights Reserved.
Reading Level: Grade 4
Topics: Poems about Kooky Characters, School Poems
Use This Poem
Would you like to use this poem in your classroom? Would you like permission to reprint, record, recite or broadcast this poem, or set it to music? Please click on one of the following links for permissions and reprint rights information: