Better to acknowledge it 20 years after the fact than never.
M
is
for
1889, John Phillip Sargent
Will someone say it?
She beats her students up.
(The ones she dislikes).
And she has gotten away with it, again and again.
What a mockery of the whole idea of education.
Marsha Weidner Haufler
University of Kansas*
Mistress of Innuendo and Attack.
Smart, hard as nails, and without aesthetic sensibility or moral integrity.
Who do people fear M? Because to behold her is to be turned into stone.
Those who did were destroyed. Few ever dared.
F
is
for
fakes,
as well as
forgetting and
forgiveness.
I cannot forget. I will not forget. Forgiveness, yes, but not at the expense of memory.
I still feel anger, not sadness or forgiveness, for those in Higher Education who live a living lie.
M is also for the memory of beauty once glimpsed if not known.
Leonardo, The Yarnwinder Madonna
* whose motto ought to be "Vires est Vox Forever. (Might is right. Forever)."
