It has been said that a university is Plato sitting on one end of a log and a student on the other. But what if the student has a laptop? And what if Plato is a card carrying member of the teachers union? And has the log been certified as being from a non-endangered species of tree?
Ah then, said Plato, looking firm
Decline the verb to be
The student, puzzled, looked about
But nowhere did he see
A way around the question that
His tutor thus had posed
For he could answer not because
His laptop it was closed
For union rules required both
Of them to idly sit
‘Twas clear that both infinitives
And logs were meant to split
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