Friday, September 6, 2024

Draft Beer, Not Students - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Draft Beer, Not Students

 

A slogan from the 1960s

 

In illo tempore:

 

A young man swaggers across the ‘versity quad

Smoking a Marlboro or affecting a pipe

‘Way cool in his sports coat and turtleneck

Shakespeare or physics held loosely in his hand

 

A young woman passes through the ‘versity quad

Smoking a Parliament or checking her mirror

‘Way cool in her pencil skirt and layered look

Shakespeare or physics held closely to her heart

 

Sed in tempore nostro:

 

Pronouns galumph across the ‘versity squad

One fist raised in hate, the other clutching a glowing box

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