Lawrence Hall
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A Master’s Degree from the Dairy Queen in Huntington,
Texas
And for The Ataman, Dr. Barbara Carr
of Happy Memory
Well, not exactly, but the
Dairy Queen
Was my late-night coffee stop
on the way home
From all those evening
classes in Nacogdoches
I should have asked the girls
to sign the diploma
(Is the juke box still broken?)
I worked on that degree for
seven years
One class at a time, sweet
Jesus, oh, yeah
And God bless Dr. Carr for
all those extensions
And the fluorescent-lit
journeys through Mother Russia
(Does the ice cream machine still make that
funny grinding noise?)
Seven years! I’m not all that
smart
But persistence is its own
kind of art
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