The Lonely Lecturer

a confession--tell me it's not true poem

When you think

you are the show,

it's the audience you are.

Could I stand in front of you

like a troubadour, with no right to it,

with vanity on my shoulder?

You may hear me in passing

or generously if nothing else to do.

I am a will-be man

who never went far beyond the first boast.

Vanity requires a future

which is quickly turning to ash.

Reviews

[Relic]

I've seen many lecturers. I could never be a good one myself. Besides not having the knowledge one needs, I haven't got that kind of vanity. I think the profession is becoming an endagered species.