Brandeis Senior Year

Things sure have changed since Abbie Hoffman started
Sandwichman and dosed the tuna fish.
Entire dorms of virgins
Drink, watch Sesame Street, and giggle
About sex. Despite weekly exterminations
The silverfish return in time for finals. Every week
The RA yells at me and Jenni 'cause we dyed
The sinks. My textbooks wait in the corner
For their numbers to give them the strength
To fall over. I earn a thousand a week
Selling Tylenol to girls in purple warm-up suits,
Girls who have crushes on Joey, think his makeup
Is cute, and ignore the obvious. I win three
Awards and am honored at a luncheon with
The president. She looks like Tim Curry and had
Students arrested for wearing spikes. We feed
And shelter subterraneans, out of
Pity and for Trivial Pursuit. Only Eileen
Can do geography. When John the Cabby can't
Answer, he stalls by pointing out that my blue graduation
Robe is the same shade
As someone's face after an o.d.

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