College Graduation

For you, the student with a college graduation looming ahead, there is both joy and trepidation. Here at the pub, Edward urges you to continue onward to the ever more rarefied heights of an advanced degree. He sniffs, sotto voce, that the longer you are kept out of the marketplace, the better. He is crusty, pay him no heed and he will toddle back to his seat to scratch limericks on a napkin. These usually follow variations upon “There once was a man from Nantucket.” How droll!

Too Old to Work

I can't see through the fog and the murk
College life can make students berserk.
There is one thing I fear,
Will I get out of here
Before I get too old to work?

Kathleen, with better things to do, considered serving these limerick poems up under Bitter Dregs, but the theme of college graduation, quotes, songs and college graduation verses is viewed more nearly as a sweet memory from the distance of years. True, few things in life can be more trying than that transformative experience of higher education. As you pass four, five, or more years, you find your father is blanching, and your mother feels an attack of the vapors coming on. We beg you, do not even consider changing that major once more.

Wisdom of Ages

I will miss this fine campus. Parlaying
What Profs here have taught me, relaying
The wisdom of ages
Converted to wages
One day when some company's paying.

Nor do you, the student, escape unscathed. It may take years to catch up from those all-nighters, and moreover, well, let us not even think about those student loans! You require a respite from the hallowed halls of knowledge. Step down from your Ivory Tower to hoist a pint in the pub with your buds. This one’s for you!