Better Than Notes

Futile facts spew from
the face of a professor
too smart for his own good

'If you turn to page eighty-three,
we can begin to discuss the...'

Hour and a quarter class
that meets twice every week
time spent penning poetry that
makes jaws dropp and minds race
the milky way marathon converting
my words into wonders of watercolor

'The expansion of national powers
under the commerce clause...'

I swear, swallowing cyanide and
rotting from the inside sounds
more exciting than frivolous

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poem by Ferdinando Paparella
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