Who would a shodan be, come to the congress.
Play in good company, making good progress.
Learn all your tesuji, and use them constantly.
You'll soon be on your way to be a shodan.
Now that I'm thirteen kyu groups seem so fragile.
No matter what I do, white's far too agile.
I keep them all joined up, he can't get in to cut.
Ah so! His group's gone phut, I've beaten a shodan.
Now that I've reached five kyu, things seem no better.
In spite of learning nakade, snap-back and geta.
Though I am on my guard, bad habits I can't discard,
it seems far too hard to be a shodan.
Two kyu or stronger now, one thing I'll ask you:
How comes it's always me plays in his moyo?
While my group struggles free he's making territory.
Oh hell, who wants to be a bloody shodan?
One kyu, it's all there now, try not to panic.
Keep calm and see it through, that's really magic.
I'd no idea that he was just as bad as me.
Oh joy! At last I'll be another shodan.