Erudite Rodent by Doug Stoothoff

With considerable trepidation
The student approached his instructor
Having scurried the stairs like a Josephoartigasia
And negotiated past the flunkies who loured over the colonnasia
During her appointed question hour

With an imagination that is descriptively fertile
There is no denying that
A crab walking right in front of a snapping turtle
Is like taking a bath in gravy and dancing in front of a lion

She asked if he was trying to mock her
Having been queried as to whether she was really a doctor
And she fulsomely responded:
I am whatever floats your boats
In the grand tradition of Goebbels and Titus Oates

Before he could further lead her astray
She then went on to say:

As a brief digression, My learned studies gave me the impression that
The bourgeoise will not educate you about your own oppression
For having deteriorated to calling me names
As an adjunct to these fun little games
You must uncritically accept my hyperemotional claims
to self-victimhood as fact
You can pander about the superiority of self-reliance
But to question me is violence
So approach me with more tact

Slowly then he began
By noting that underneath her table
Were a miserable little pile of sticky labels
A vicious impulse rose in him then to tease
He decided to riposte by saying well aren't these
The political pundit's definition of what is a man

He then went on to declaim
Regarding this spat about power dynamics you won't recognize
That no two umwelts are the same
The past is always changing but few realize

At the risk of sounding prophetic
He said well let's stop pretending
That it could be species ending
The droves of billions out there
With binary sex adult woman fetish
Might just find a new aesthetic

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