just another drip on the wall
sitting listless in the council chambers during a
session of the higher degrees committee i’m
staring indolently at a wall of portraits of
eminent academics from days of yore in
their robes and their cloaks and their paraphernalia.
& i smile to see one small drip of belligerent paint
which has slyly sliced itself into the image of a great.

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