Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.

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54. Tower [100 poems challenge]

 

54.          Tower

I am an academic type
Who’s nearly but not quite a prof.
I claim this means I theorise,
While others claim that this confirms
An ivory tower is my place.

But such a claim is a disgrace:
I don’t exploit poor pachyderms,
Or, wanting tusks, cause their demise.
No, I’m afraid I have to scoff,
The thought is just polemic hype.

10 June […]