My Penmanship is Pretty Bad

　　My penmanship is pretty bad.

　　My printing's plainly awful.

　　In truth, my writing looks so sad

　　it ought to be unlawful.

　　I try but, still, I must confess

　　my writing looks like scribbles.

　　My pencil makes a painful mess.

　　My ballpoint leaks and dribbles.

　　My letters take up so much space

　　they nearly can't be read.

　　The ones that should be lowercase

　　are capitals instead.

　　My p's and q's and R's and b's

　　are backward half the time.

　　When letters look as bad as these

　　it's probably a crime.

　　My cursive's utter lack of style

　　will make you want to curse.

　　But, even so, I have to smile;

　　my teacher's writing's worse.