Get yourself a well-lit office
And make it the museum of your achievements!
Get yourself a bookshelf
And unleash a vanity that deprives Libraries!
Get yourself sensitive and self-doubting students
And preach with deafening Authority!
Get yourself a mahogany desk
And thump it as your ideas obsolesce!
Get yourself tenure
And safely disrobe your integrity!
Get yourself citations
And justify your growing narrow-mindedness!
Get yourself academic sanctuary
And pretend you’ve transcended barbarism!