Wednesday, December 17, 2014
The Art of the University
Professor
-What do you profess at the university?
-Myself.
-That’s too narrow for us to pay you.
-Really, myself making Art as an example
to students attempting same.
-Uh huh? That shit prospers at Harvard or
Penn where they’re burning through rich men’s
moolah, but this is Commonwealth of Pennsylvania–-
and we desire minimum nonsense in the eyes of
John and Joannie Q.
-Let me sit with them and deeply explain the pain
and joy of it!
-With the former, they’re familiar. The latter might as well
be on another planet.
-Not so! I can show...!
-No time. Just keep going on in the same half-ass way.
There’s elbow room for well-meaning naifs in even
dictatorships.
Labels: art, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Ivy League, Penn, taxpayer, university
