by Peter Erich
You can catch comets from a spaceship
Sure. Just aim anticipate and
wait and wait and wait.
Spend ten years in a car trunk
seeing the sun through a key hole
and then wait some more.
Just ten years. Wait.
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. Now! Fire the harpoon!
You are climbing
you are a mountain climber
you are scaling a screaming spinning mountain.
You are riding this thing
you are a jockey
you are taming a wild firefly as it passes the sun.
You are published and unrecognizable
you are a genius like everyone else
you are espressoed-up and eager to drop the next syllabus.
Two questions you should have asked the administration:
Is this a tenure track position? What does it pay?
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You've swiped Academia's cachet! Quite deftly, one might add. *
Great piece. Sounds like my life.