the woes of being an arts student
ASEAN, oh ASEAN, how you haunt me, and taunt me!
Your readings do wrought me like Pallas' bust (size),
Whirling and twirling like that Raven's loud cawing
and my sanity stays solid - Never, Nevermore!

Oh please stop the yaking, poor Offred is wrecking
a drill in my skull for her dreamscape parade
reality does fade and it builds and it fades
and my mind in the page hopes - please! Nevermore!

But, when the mania stops, and I collapse and I flop,
my heart makes a drop, as there are no As -
Life's all work and no play, but to not work all day...
Come the end of the day - That's it. Nothing more.

Sigh.
In the desert there are no signs that say, Thou shalt not eat stones. I guess its time to start eating.