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Jan. 23, 2006

Tenure Decision

By Will Hochman

after Madam Professor

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Please let me know you’re happier than
  me.
It’s not hard. The big thing in my day
(picking up wind-broken branches)
has already been done by more wind,
the fierceness of bare limbs, and kids
crazy with glee to fill a red wheel
  barrow
with their poetry while I gaze out the
  window
seeing mostly a writing-crazed writing
  teacher
stressed out about writing
before the school term even begins.

I should be more like that academic
Ph.D. genius of a Sociology professor,
the one who when charged as a prostitute
explained her intelligent instruction
and discourse with professional clients
(while providing companionship)
was what the money was for.
Anything else is a personal choice
between consenting colleagues,
be it college or marriage.

Will Hochman is an associate professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University. His new book of poems, Freer, will be published this spring by Pecan Grove Press.

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Comments

Now I Remember ... It Was SEX 101

I once took a course in sociology, But maybe it was in anthropology. I’m kidding you not, My prof was so hotI wished she were teaching biology.

RWH, at 2:21 pm EST on January 23, 2006

I’m really not qualified to comment on post-iambic pentameter poetry, but this one’s worth a passing word or two. What a fantastic distraction! Exquisitely done. Thanks, Will...

M Kozusko, at 2:25 am EST on January 24, 2006

Nice poetic (in)congruity on our truly oldest profession.

CC, at 5:40 pm EST on January 24, 2006

another teacher looks out the window

no industrious spider spun the cracks in the crazed pane through which I glimpse the childhoods I relive if I plumb icebox depths for that cool dripping bite to spin me backthrough decades

but on avalanche-brink poises a precipice of papers to grade to write to read to sort and no bibliography lesson plan or syllabuswrites itself

Lois Lake Church, Adjunct, grad student (English) at Southern CT State U, at 4:25 am EST on January 25, 2006

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