Tuesday Poetry
An Academic Haiku, from Rate Your Students
Junior faculty,
running scared from job to job,
no place to call home.
Around Christmas 1995 a friend came to visit me in my newly married, presumably happy, life in Michigan. We went to a museum where we saw an exhibit of a Japanese tea room. Outside the display was an attempt to describe this exhibit. It started with something like: “Within the tea room, one feels loneliness which penetrates into the marrow of one’s bones...” and ended with the caution “Please do not enter the tea room”. I laughed out loud. If you don’t get it, you probably should leave.
An Academic Haiku, from Rate Your Students
Junior faculty,
running scared from job to job,
no place to call home.
Posted by PFG at 12:18 AM
Labels: academic culture, poetry
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