Academic Poetry

Via The Little Professor, a poem sure to touch most academics, Tom Wayman’s “Did I Miss Anything?”:

Nothing. None of the content of this course
has value or meaning
Take as many days off as you like:
any activities we undertake as a class
I assure you will not matter either to you or me
and are without purpose

Where it will touch them, I’m not sure… (That’s a short excerpt– read the whole thing.)