Poem: Encyclopedic Knowledge

Remember when the encyclopedia was the know-it-all and one-stop-shop in most houses? Late 80s, doing homework straight out of a book that was, at best, updated in the mid-70s but more likely this was late-60s info, with your parents chipping in. A little ‘I remember that’, maybe some ‘that’s about right’ energy – when everyone in the house already knew …