Archived away, in honeycomb hives
Of catacomb corridors, as statutes,
Judicial and offical enmesh me,
I am an academic.
Catalgued within my study by
Room number, phone- and email-extension,
I am pinned on the photogaphic board
For students to gaze or scowl at.
Footnotes, journals, essays, lectures:
What paraphenlia we acquire, for
Processes we can't measure! Accumulating
Knowledge, inculcating insight, learning and lore -
Our unruly lives we live through,
Categorise, and and try to control,
Though the greater part remains unrelatable,
Transgressing limits, beyond report.
