Week #13--Improv

This is an riff off of Kate Northrup's "Lines":

Homework

                                    by Pauline Rodwell

The wittiest of all will probably engage in a struggle

            with the demands of homework,

and have to sweat it, eventually.

You can attack it throughout the day

            but your progress goes nowhere

after three, six,

            eight hours and it keeps on

demanding, demanding. You can’t

quit on it. One paper

            reaches completion

but comes back to you

days later for reworking. If you had been smart,

you would have chosen a topic

not so radically unpopular:

Papers always have a title and a thesis.

I myself once wrote a paper on homework.

            I took it to the professor

and laid it in front of her

 whispering Read, it’s original

but she tossed it in the can.

            Then the semester was done

and the graduating students were cheering and jumping

while I was crying because in just a few weeks

it would all begin again:

reading, writing, assignments.