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Meza, Jasmine

The Prairie Light Review
Volume 40 | Number 1 Article 24
Fall 12-1-2017
Unpredictable
Jasmine Meza
College of DuPage
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Unpredictable
Jasmine Meza
We can go to the park
We can hide in the yellow slides
We can lay on the wood chips as we fall for eternity
We can go swing back and forth to oblivion
We can follow this stranger
We can get kidnapped
We can go home
We can go take a nap in a forgetful mattress
We can rest our heads on these sinkable pillows
We can never wake up
We can try a new restaurant
We can try different foods we have never encountered
We can choke on the food
We can go to the pool
We can go swimming underwater
We can play the game who can hold their breath the longest
We can drown
We can go driving
We can go speeding as we don’t have our seat belts on
We can listen to the increasingly loud honks telling us to stop
We can stare into the bright blinding lights shining in our direction
We can get in a car crash
We can’t live our lives in fear
We can only live by taking risks
As there will always be that uncertainty in everything we do
Life is just never predictable
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Unpredictable

Bailey, Matthew

The Prairie Light Review
Volume 40 | Number 1 Article 31
Fall 12-1-2017
End of the Block
Matthew Bailey
College of DuPage
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End of the Block 
Matthew Bailey
At the edge of autumn and the end
of the street stands a faltering
fence guarding what’s left of a two story
house, now merely a mess of
timbery broken glass 
threatening to become nothing more
than a pile of memories, tattered and true.
 
The peeling paint and shattered shingles
leave intermittent traces of a home,
welcoming and warm, filled
with the sounds of summer, teeming
with the imperfect perfection reflected
in the eyes of a child growing up far too fast
and fleeing further from the seeming confines
of family, seeking something
always found
at the beginning and
remembered at the close.
 
When the wind softly whistles through
widening gaps in the wooded walls,
the dormant corpse becomes animated,
reminded of its slumber
waiting for the marriage of past and present
at a time where little is more
incommensurable than this,
impossible instants of wedding bells and
infant cries housed in a humble casket of
insulation and two-by-fours.
 
Testing the rusty hinges, the gate gives way
to a barren yard bookended by withering elms
whose weary arms once shaded
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pirate quests and endless games of catch
carried out across the span of adolescence, now
fading in the albums on the top most shelf
gathering the same dust that settles on the windowsills.
 
Disturbed only by the last-lingering spirits haunting
this former abode—
seeking what is found at the end and
remembered in the middle—
this place is fettered
to simple requests,
for the winter to be the spring,
for the butterfly to become the caterpillar,
for the grown to be the innocent clinging
to plucked dandelions yellowing clinched fingers
without a care in the world.
 
But repairs cannot be made with cemetery stone:
what’s left will continue to crumble
beneath the weight of a loss that will strip
the foundation to nothing
in the hopes that it can finally
forget and be forgotten,
drifting away in the autumn breeze
at the edge of eternity.
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Stilling, Audrey

The Prairie Light Review
Volume 40 | Number 1 Article 52
Fall 12-1-2017
Do Maples Mourn In Fall?
Audrey Stilling
College of DuPage
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Do Maples Mourn in Fall?
Audrey Stilling
Do you think the maple mourns 
As her daughters blush in crimson, dress in gold 
And dance with all their sisters, just to flutter 
Softly to the ground, and crumple into duff? 
 
And does the Northland weep 
Watching geese and cranes and loons lift off; 
They abandon her without a backward glance, 
Leave nothing but the echo of their calls? 
 
What impending grief might haunt 
The rivers, lakes and estuaries of this land 
As swirling light and magic fluid grace 
Grow sluggish, rigid, hardened with the cold? 
 
Perhaps the moon, in Hunter splendor, 
Yellow-orange, suspended low in early evening, 
Reminds the earth that ending is beginning, 
And life is birth and death and birth again. 
 
Luna’s winter lullaby reminds the earth to rest 
In this pregnant time, while Nature curls within herself, 
Holding embryonic life, creating sacred space and time. 
She renews our faith. Spring will come again.
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Parker, Phoebe

ESSAI
Volume 15 Article 29
Spring 2017
Discussions with Dike
Phoebe Parker
College of DuPage
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Discussions with Dike 
 
by Phoebe Parker 
 
(English 1159) 
 
 
 
UMMARY: Recent investigations have revealed some startling new details about the famed 
Odysseus’s epic journey home. A survivor of his crew was discovered on the beaches of Pylos. 
The man, believed to be Eurylochus, told the city’s king, Nestor, about the events that took 
place on the journey. His accounts of the events, however, reveal a side of Odysseus that may 
threaten his heroic title. Eurylochus has accused Odysseus of deceitful behavior, and of being the 
cause of his crewmen’s death. We have invited Odysseus to our studios, so we may discover the truth 
behind these accusations. 
 
 DIKE: Welcome to Discussions with Dike. I am your host Dike, goddess of justice, and 
moral order (“Dike”). Tonight we have a very special guest. He is an acclaimed hero and beloved 
king, who served overseas for ten years during the Trojan War, but what he is most famous for, is his 
epic journey home. Please welcome our guest, Odysseus. 
 
 ODYSSEUS: Thank you for having me! 
 
 DIKE: Now Odysseus, I believe we are all very familiar with the tales of adventure and woe 
that you have shared, over the years, since your return. They have become quite popular throughout 
all of Greece, don’t you agree? 
 
 ODYSSEUS: Yes, they seem to have spread like wildfire. I am proud to hear that my stories 
are being told in the many halls of great kingdoms. It is the legacy any man hopes to leave behind. 
DIKE: There have been some questions raised that could discredit your legacy, does that concern 
you? 
 
 ODYSSEUS: No, absolutely not. I have revealed my tale, and I stand by my actions. I am 
prepared to defend my name at all costs. I am the great Odysseus. 
DIKE: I would first like to discuss the message Circes, the nymph, shared with you before your 
departure. Her message carried many warnings did it not? 
 
 ODYSSEUS: Yes, Circe was very helpful. She shared with me the steps of my journey home, 
and how to survive the hardships to come. 
DIKE: And you shared these with your crew? 
 
 ODYSSEUS: Yes, “I informed my shipmates point by point” (12.180). I said to my crew, 
“It’s wrong for only one or two/ to know the revelations that lovely Circe/ made to me alone” 
(12.167-169). I wanted my crewmen to be informed of what was to come, so that we could be united 
in the fight against what awaited us. 
 
 DIKE: Your crewman, Eurylochus, recently came out and said that you did not fully disclose 
all that Circe had predicted. He claims you said, “She warns, we must steer clear of the Sirens, /… I 
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alone was to hear their voices” (12.172-174). You claim that Circe told you that you alone are to hear 
the Siren song. We know this not to be true. 
Circe, in truth, told you not to listen unless you absolutely could not resist. You, Odysseus, singled 
yourself out. Why did you feel the need to alter the truth when discussing the Sirens with your crew? 
 
 ODYSSEUS: No one has heard the Sirens song and lived to tell the tale. I wanted to be the 
first. If I did not declare myself the chosen one, my crew would have fought over who should listen. I 
did not want to create conflict where it was not needed. I therefore, altered the truth to save the 
crewmen from a disagreement. 
 
 DIKE: Eurylochus also claims that you did not warn the crewmen about the crags. 
 
There was a choice offered to you, by Circe, between which crag you should choose to face. Scylla, 
the six-headed monster, “an immortal devastation, / terrible, savage, wild” (12.128-129), or 
Charybdis, the whirlpool, who “not even the earthquake god could save you from” (12.118). Why did 
you make the decision to face Scylla without consulting with your crew? 
 
 ODYSSEUS: There was no other option. Circe told me that Scylla, the six-headed monster, 
was the crag to face. She said to me, “Better by far to lose six men, and keep your ship/ than lose 
your entire crew” (12.120-121). Scylla was the lesser of two evils. She would only cause the death of 
six crewmen. I made the decision for my crew, to save them. Telling them my options would have 
caused an argument, one that may never have been solved. We would have lost precious time. I stand 
by my decision. Everything I did was to save my crew, the best way I could. 
DIKE: You and Eurylochus are the only survivors. Eurylochus blames you for the deaths of his 
fellow crewmen. Do you blame yourself? 
 
 ODYSSEUS: It brings me sorrow that my crew was unable to return home with me. I do not, 
however, blame myself for their deaths. My crewmen where a mutinous group, of ungrateful 
savages, who held no trust in me. When we cleared the crags and approached the island of Thrinacia, 
I warned my crewmen not to feast on the cattle of the sun. I said to them, “swear me a binding oath, 
all here, that if/ we come on a herd of cattle or fine flock of sheep, / not one man among us…/ will 
slaughter an ox or ram” (12.323- 326). Eurylochus and the crewmen chose to disobey my orders. 
They feasted on the cattle of the sun for days on end, and they paid the price for it. I was lucky to 
escape Zeus’s wrath with my life. May their tales serve as a lesson to all; the God’s are not to be 
trifled with. Any man who dares to test their commands will learn just how powerful they truly are. 
 
 DIKE: Indeed, your tale can serve as a lesson to all. Thank you for sharing your side of the 
story. I believe there is much else to be said about the truth behind Eurylochus’s accusations, but I 
think we all can side with you in knowing that you were not the cause of your crewmen’s untimely 
demise, due to the representation of character you so clearly recount. You have shared that your crew 
was quite disloyal and took any chance they had to undermine your authority. As we all know, a ship 
cannot run without its captain. I sympathize with your struggles and hope we can resolve this matter. 
 
 ODYSSEUS: Thank you Dike for allowing me to share my side of the story. I believe it is 
important to clear up these false accusations, so that my tales can live on, for they have so much to 
teach the world. 
 
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 DIKE: Thank you, Odysseus, for joining us tonight. Tune in next week as I interview 
Eurylochus to get to the bottom of this story. This has been, Discussions with Dike. Have a 
goodnight. 
 
 
  
 
Works Cited 
 
Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Penguin, 1998. 
“Dike.” Greek Mythology, 
http://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Minor_Gods/Dike/dike.html. Accessed 
November 13, 2016. 
 
 
 
 
 
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Kunstman, Jennifer

ESSAI
Volume 15 Article 23
Spring 2017
A Book Review of "Six Modern Plagues and How
We Are Causing Them" - Mark J. Walters
Jennifer Kunstman
College of DuPage
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A Book Review of Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them - Mark J. Walters 
 
by Jennifer Kunstman 
 
(Microbiology 1420) 
 
 
 
ark Jerome Walters provides some disturbing evidence in his book, Six Modern Plagues 
and How We Are Causing Them, by showing that the human race is ultimately responsible 
for six emerging diseases that have become major health threats. He writes of each disease 
separately, going into detail of the human action and it’s resulting cascade effect that leads to the 
proliferation of each epidemic. Walters cites over and over, and not so subtly, that unless people can 
learn to live as a part of the ecosystem instead of trying to dominate, control, or modify it, that these 
diseases are just the beginning of our health problems. 
 The setting for the first disease is West Sussex, England, where a dairy farmer noticed his 
cows behaving strangely and violently (Walters, 2003).  Of the cows that eventually died or were put 
down, autopsies showed that the cows had BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or Mad Cow 
Disease. The brains of the cows were spongy in appearance and looked very much like the brains of 
sheep who would sometimes succumb to a virus called scrapie. By 1995 there were a handful of 
cases of CJD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is the spongy encephalopathy disease in humans and 
it was determined that the cause was a prion. Ultimately the source of the BSE in the cows was 
traced back to the feed the farmers were buying for their cows because companies had started using 
the by-products of killed livestock to add filler to their feed in a process called rendering. By doing 
this, the feed was much cheaper to produce, the extra protein in the feed was making the cows grow 
faster and bigger, so the companies made a bigger profit. The problem was, the prion that is 
responsible for scrapie is not killed during the rendering process which makes it then possible that 
the cows were infected with sheep byproducts of sheep infected with scrapie. This disease could have 
been prevented if human beings, with increasing profits as their motivation, had not tried to modify 
the cow’s diet. Since the digestive system of the cow has evolved to a plant eater, to digest plants, it 
is unimaginable that people would think that feeding animal products, would not have dangerous 
consequences. 
 It is customary for the people of Gabon, Africa to eat bushmeat, and it is most often their 
only source of protein (Walters, 2003). French timber companies began logging practices through the 
area in the late 1980s and early 1990s which added to the demand for bushmeat to feed the loggers. 
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has been studied for over 30 years and there’s strong evidence that 
the HIV-1 virus jumped from non-human primates to human beings. Not only has the virus jumped 
once but there’s research that shows it could have jumped twice and that there is a potential for it to 
jump again. The people who slaughter these animals are at a very high risk of contracting the virus 
from an infected animal through blood and open wounds. Interestingly, the animals do not seem to be 
affected by the virus but they hold the information about the evolution of the virus itself, and the 
mechanisms for controlling it. Because these animals are being slaughtered almost to extinction, 
Walters stated, “AIDS is not only a medical issue but also an ecological one” (p. 49). 
 One of the most frightening epidemics the human race is now facing is the bacterial 
resistance to antibiotic drugs used to treat life threatening infections (Walters, 2003). Walters writes 
specifically about Salmonella DT104, which has become resistant to a multitude of current 
antibiotics. Walters suggests a cascade effect that starts with antibiotics given to farm animals in their 
feed. The reason is greed; in order to have enough cows to turn a big profit it is cheaper to cram them 
into small, confined spaces and give them antibiotics in their feed so they don’t get sick from the 
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deplorable living conditions they are forced to endure. The bacteria in these animals is flooded with 
these antibiotics, and those bacteria that survive this onslaught become stronger against those same 
antibiotics. Humans, if they undercook their meat or contaminate parts of their kitchen with the juices 
from meat, can risk becoming infected with the resistant bacteria. Even more alarming, bacteria can 
travel, are very good at sharing genes, and Salmonella DT104 specifically can live in and infect 
many different species. As an example, Walters uses the case of a bird carrying a fish that is carrying 
antibiotic resistant bacteria from a fish farm and having it end up in a stockyard. There the bacteria 
can live in the cattle, pass on its genes for resistance, and end up on someone’s kitchen counter. 
Walters reminds us once again, “Humans are connected not only to one another but also to the 
myriad other species, seen and unseen, with which we share the earth” (p. 87). There has been 
evidence of antibiotics ending up in soil and water also as the drugs get passed through the animals, 
end up in waste lagoons, get spread on crops as fertilizer, ultimately ending up in the groundwater 
and getting into the soil. 
 The most common vector borne-illness in the United States is lyme disease caused by a 
bacterium that could be as old or older than the forests of the United States (Walters, 2003). Lyme 
disease is carried by mice and other small rodents, but does not cause disease in these small animals. 
Ticks feed on these mammals but eventually will multiply and live on deer for years.  The more mice 
and deer in a certain area, the more cases of lyme disease can be found in humans in that same area. 
In the Northeastern part of the United States, the woodlands of Hutcheson Memorial Forest have 
been cut up into sections to accommodate the building of homes and roads. In doing so, more light 
was let in on the sides of the forest, and the forest floor began to grow leafy green plants that deer 
love to eat. The deer population has exploded because of this lush new food source, but they harbor 
the ticks that carry lyme disease. Humans are now in very close contact with the forests and the deer 
having built their homes right on the edges of these pieces of forest, making them easy targets to be 
bitten by a lyme disease carrying tick. Walters added that people’s homes have also become 
sanctuaries for deer since hunting deer is not allowed within 450 feet of a residence without their 
permission. Walters also surmises that the building of homes and roads have evicted predators of the 
deer and has forced many of the species that have lived in the forest to move elsewhere upsetting the 
biodiversity of the forest. Because of this decrease in biodiversity, mice and chipmunks have begun 
to thrive and they are responsible for 90% of the transmission of Lyme disease to the ticks. Once 
again the human race has tried to modify nature. By dicing up these ancient forests into little plots of 
woods and setting up homes next to them, the balance of the diversity of the forest has been altered. 
Walters states, “The ecology of Lyme disease reminds us that the connections between the earth and 
human health are ancient” (p. 110). 
 Our climate is changing and the evidence points to global warming due to reckless practices 
and behaviors of the human race. One result of this climate change is that excessive rain from El 
Nino has poured so much water on the Colorado Plateau that there’s increased soil moisture, which 
makes the juniper and pinons woodlands trees make more nuts, downy chess grass seeds germinate, 
and snake weed grow (Walters, 2003). According to Walters, this increase in vegetation and food has 
caused a dramatic increase in the number of mice, many of which carry hantavirus.  Hantavirus can 
be transmitted to humans from the urine of these mice, and the resulting HPS, or hantavirus 
pulmonary syndrome, can often be fatal.  
 Walters continues with another effect of global warming; severe drought and excessive heat. 
In 1990 birds migrating from Europe to Africa had to stop in Israel because the temperatures were so 
high the birds became exhausted and could not fly any longer. These storks, who were carriers of a 
flavivirus, or West Nile virus, were bitten by the local mosquitos who in turn, bit the local geese. 
West Nile virus ended up in Queens New York just one year after it killed the geese in Israel and 
draught and international travel are to blame. Millions of people and other animals come through 
JFK international airport every year with documented (and undocumented) animals. Mosquitos can 
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stow away in the aircraft, and birds can be bitten by mosquitos then migrate from all over the world. 
The summer of 1991 was so hot in Queens, NY, that the mosquitos were able to multiply at an 
alarming rate in the sewer drains before flying out with the eventual rains. Many people were 
infected that hot summer and some died. 
 Walters traveled next to Southern China, where people were becoming sick with SARS, 
severe acute respiratory syndrome. SARS is caused by coronavirus, which is very common in 
animals, and is thought to have jumped to humans from a species like a cow or a cat. Because space 
is a premium in China, people often share their homes with their animals like pigs and chickens and 
many times chicken coops are situated above the pigsties so that when the chicken defecates it ends 
up in the intestines of the pig. The pig waste then runs off and drains into shrimp ponds where ducks 
who swim on the ponds eat the food. This intermingling of species gives these viruses a way to swap 
their genes, allowing them to survive from species to species.  The interesting point Walters makes 
with respect to SARS is how human action was able to control the spreading of the virus and make 
the virus change to a milder version. Walters believes that because infected people were quarantined, 
the virus stopped spreading. The thinking is if the virus wants to survive, then, it would have to make 
a modified version of itself so that its host can be up walking around to spread it from person to 
person. This epidemic is really a question of space and international travel. Walters believes how 
closely we co- habitat with nature will have an effect on the microbes that can infect different species 
and how they can swap their genetic information.  
 Mark Jerome Walters makes the reader take a deeper look at how people live and interact 
with the world. The reader is taken on a journey throughout the world, and if survival is in the human 
race’s future, Walters encourages everyone to be more responsible and make smarter decisions on 
how animals are treated, how life saving medicines are used, how our environment is protected, and 
how to deal with an increasing population. None of these epidemics has a simple root cause, but it is 
very evident after reading Six Human Plagues and How We Have Caused Them, that the human race 
is partly or mostly responsible for every one of them. Walters recalls his discussion with the Navajo 
Indian healers concerning the hantavirus and HPS infections, “Each healer spoke about how humans 
are not the dominant force in nature but instead are dependent upon other forms of life for existence. 
The outbreak had resulted from disharmony in the environment, they claimed, and now ceremonies 
were needed to reestablish harmony between patients and the universe” (p. 121). 
 
 
  
 
References 
Walters, M. J. 2003. Six modern plagues and how we are causing them. Washington: Island 
Press/Shear Water Books. 
 
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Ventura, Alice

The Prairie Light Review
Volume 39 | Number 2 Article 1
Spring 5-1-2017
Front Cover
Alice Ventura
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Tolman Flannery, Maureen

The Prairie Light Review
Volume 39 | Number 2 Article 14
Spring 5-1-2017
Returning to Recollection's Place
Maureen Tolman Flannery
College of DuPage
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Returning to Recollection’s Place 
 
Aren’t you, too, energized 
by the alchemy of place and memory, 
longing for a landscape that charges 
in its particular way? 
 
I crave what wells up in me 
returning to that patch of timber— 
aspen growth shimmering at the rim 
of lodge pole pines.  It’s akin 
 
to a magnet’s urgency nearing the iron surface 
or a cocklebur’s relief when it’s knocked 
off the sock and back onto soil. 
Perhaps you’re attached to patch of dirt road 
 
or the canyon cliff you repelled down 
with a guttural yell of bliss, 
even a trashy abandoned shack 
where you met with friends to map out mischief. 
 
Maybe passion stirs in that wood where you first 
heard a magpie answer squirrel banter 
or in cactus-spiked badlands where you 
peered through mica at the unrelenting blue of sky, 
 
or a certain curve of shore freshly etched 
by sandpiper feet and the sidelong scamper 
of hermit crabs.  I can’t find an apt word 
for the solace that emerges when we approach 
 
the wild place our innocence could not tame. 
A dormant homing pigeon instinct kicks in 
when I head again for those mountains 
to feel the tight clump of otherness loosen. 
 
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Flinker, Kelsey

The Prairie Light Review
Volume 39 | Number 2 Article 21
Spring 5-1-2017
Dark Clouds
Kelsey Flinker
College of DuPage
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Looking Out Over Poseidon Avenue 
  
The blackness beyond the long white bookstalls 
stretched across the horizon 
could be sky, could be water, could be earth. 
  
Could be the end of the world, 
the point where it all vanishes, 
the place of final goodbyes. 
  
This side teems with lights and noise. 
The bleached demarcation line 
holding back the wriggling, defiant seasurge, 
denying the dark absence just beyond. 
  
Is it the Buddha’s nothingness, or that of Socrates?  Sartre? 
How many kinds of nothing will I yet have to stumble through? 
  
Now the soldiers in white begin to draw their curtains, 
adding to the nothingness. 
More upon more nothing is building, 
slyly, so no one else notices.
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Dark Clouds

Callaghan, Alison

The Prairie Light Review
Volume 39 | Number 2 Article 22
Spring 5-1-2017
In the Loop
Alison Callaghan
College of DuPage
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In the Loop 
 
Rushing toward State and Congress 
 
Yelling about the Savior, Jesus Christ 
 
Oblivious to the world he’s in 
 
Causing a scene—laughter, fear, confusion 
 
Crossing the street blindly 
 
Rushing cars miss him by no more than a millimeter 
 
His faith unbreakable 
 
Our awe unexplainable 
 
His pulpit the pavement 
 
Our conversion fleeting, Yet... 
 
His message remains stamped upon our souls
Alison Callaghan
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In the Loop

Bandusky, Dorothy

The Prairie Light Review
Volume 39 | Number 2 Article 27
Spring 5-1-2017
Point
Dorothy Bandusky
College of DuPage
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Point 
  
Now you must fail, although you pass, 
(And never fall into a lull) 
When no point can be found in class. 
  
You may as well be smoking grass 
Or picking out which smarts to cull; 
And you must fail, but first you’ll pass 
  
Out dead away from noxious gas 
That shrinks your brain and splits your skull 
When no point can be found in class. 
  
What’s that you say? “I’m very crass 
To say things like, ‘Prof. Void is null’ 
And ‘you must fail, although you pass?’”
  
Well, salary is what the lass 
Does like, I think, and not to mull 
On points that could be found in class. 
  
So read your books, (or be an ass), 
And teach yourself, (lest you be dull), 
For all must fail, although they pass, 
When no point can be found in class.
Dorothy Bandusky
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