POEM FOR SOME VICE CHANCELLOR

POEM.FOR SOME VICE-CHANCELLOR

was not
gravity apple

not
fruit in any size shape
or form
   forbidden

to give the scope and
agenda
    for every Ph D

more instruction manual
set of templates, list
of prescriptions
         essential to
your throughput
as bags and
    sacks of
ball-bearing steel

no serpent to
shift paradigm but
     discovery that the tinies
of the Universe
were quits with tape measure

and then
exponential took
dimension to town
(coming up
    with twenty-six last
time
   happened to count them)

needing
    to gauge what
(if any) might constitute limits

time
    and motion study
.
on the revelation of self