Your Philosophy Professor... Poem by RIC BASTASA

years ago you were a student of
philosophy in the university where you
spent your four years,
and you had once a philosophy professor
who was young and vibrant and
when you met in class he did all the talking
after which he made you all write
an essay about your existence, the reason why
you wanted to live, and what really made you going,
day to day and you thought well about it
and you complied.

he liked talking a lot and you were thinking and you were right all the way,
he never read what you wrote.
he was the professor and the philosopher
and you doing the works of the Pink Panther.