Growing up, remember the sinister kid
who wanted to be a mortician
Or the reserved young lady
who hoped to be a semiotician
Maybe you had a friend
who privately practiced micturition
Or knew someone in ‘the other class’
interested in insects Ordovician
I myself, as a budding dialectician
spent hours perfecting my deglutition
So, see! There’s hope for all you future econometricians
~ if you can just find a way to pay the tuition
gw light verse June 21, 2022
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