The Student, The Athlete, The Longing Endpoint That Never Fades
As Submitted To The Villanelle Of Regret Challenge
Syllabus, exams, and research
Handed out playbook design
Graduating to an academic perch
Paper seems factual and right
Challenges the academic mind
Prepared long into the night
Professor quickly looked
Coach yearns for success
Both receives bait get hooked
Says wants more
Perfect plan runs
Let seeds grow from an intellectual core
Discovering something new
Landing in the endzone
Unbelievable and true
Journal publisher calls
While standing there all alone
Wants a story that is all
Posing with the trophy degree, gracing the campus mall
About the Creator
Marc OBrien
Barry University graduate Marc O'Brien has returned to Florida after a 17 year author residency in Las Vegas. He will continue using fiction as a way to distribute information. Books include "The Final Fence: Sophomores In The Saddle"
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