I Met an Academic

Just the other day. He didn’t like me–I’m the product of leniency and trust—or worse. (How can a blind poet be worthy of a professorship?)

Boring monster. Immodest as a preacher. Strangled by rhetorics of insufficiency. To paraphrase Auden, his brain a hive whose honey is envy.

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Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University View all posts by stevekuusisto