10. [still here?]
Walked around like an exhausted young scientist, a sensitive Hamlet,
a frustrated revisionist, or some over-worked student manager?
Drank too much caffeine and/or smoked too many cigarettes for one
or a few lousy all-nighters?
Suddenly remembered gotta work tomorrow-CIT, the library or some department
office? Cover someone's RA duty? Give another tour to middle class families?
Student teach? Or wash cafeterias dishes? serve on the hot line?
Cook up some omelets, or bubble teas and espressos?
Watch a couple of spoiled freshmen boys purposely mess up
the self-service station so someone's grandma could work harder
for social security? Was one of them boys?
Called out a derogatory term or was called one?
Had his or her dorm room door vandalized?
Read or added to what one frat replied to another on a bathroom stall?
Hated that perverted pencil drawing with arrows pointing from here
to somewhere in there?
And was the poet annoyed when other students misused the word "ghetto,"
or excessively say "Oh, that's gay," or in vain say "Awe, Jesus"?
Then realized Harvard shares the same habits here? And why it's still secretly so?