I edify myself at length -
Highbrow volumes browse, reclining.
Good grief! Heaven give me strength:
How attention wanes, declining
Gradually into sleep…
Pages crumple; book falls, thumping-
Goading me awake at once,
Ears and eyes alert, heart pumping!
Ghost of willpower drives me on,
Now resuming wordy wending;
Groaning, though! This uphill task
Kindles little joy. I’m tending,
Grade-wise, downward; exams ask
Kabbalistic knowledge from me.
Eating stale starch by the ton
Now haunts my dreams; I bloat with ennui.
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