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.)