Poets Versus Practicality

A friend wrote,

‘It reads better than it lives.’

Baffling, ‘til I realized

His autobiography is mine.

Learn about thinkers –

(Descartes, Dylan, and Dorothy Parker);

Live with assholes –

(Politicians, ex-lovers, and bosses).

See, you’re set up for failure from the start –

Philosophy has no effect on the short-sighted

And college classes are useless in the real world.

They only prove you’ve got sticking power

In the face of obnoxious self-righteousness.

Damn those professors for not warning us about

Hierarchical leadership and Excel spreadsheets.

Their  tenured advice – wise and well-intentioned and right in every way -

Loses its efficacy out here in the real world.

-DBE