Jabberwocky Variations
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'Twas spring break, and the student droves
Did drink and snorkle in Florida:
Most times mainly without clothes,
And their Lit and Math ignorida.
"Beware the Professor, my son!
The jaws that lecture, the hands that grade!
Beware the Teaching Assistant: shun!
And the frumpy Librarian evade!"
He took his laptop computer in hand:
Long time the passing grade he sought--
But rested he in lecture-hall dreamland,
and dreamed awhile of nought.
And, while in daydreamy thought he drooled,
The Professor, with sinusitis aflame,
Came sniffling into the lecture hall,
And teaching as he came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The Prof wrote theorem, lemma, proof!
But alas, the laptop battery went dead
and all the notes went "poof".
"And hast thou pleased the Professor?
Come to my arms, my Baccalaureate boy!
O Graduation day!" But "Student loans to pay,"
his son replied without joy.
'Twas spring break, and the unemployed droves
Did drink and snorkle in Florida:
Most times mainly without clothes,
And their resumes ignorida.
"Zine"'s email address given as jrasmuss@iupui.edu.
First published in S k e w ! a journal on the rrragged edge of academe (http://psychology.iupui.edu/skew/splash.htm)
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