Thursday, August 16

CUNY First Poetry (this post is only for CUNY students)


Sharing my dislike of CUNY first with the world through the words of another CUNYfirst victim...enjoy :)


On CUNYFirst
(after Gerard Manley Hopkins)

No worst, there is none.
Pitched by pitchmen who
Will say anything and will stop at nothing:
Consultation—when were you operating
?PSC-CUNY—what is it you do?
My job sucks, big-time. Now I waste my hours with you,
Old-fangled, elaborate and irritating
System that stinks!
We were promised something
Better than what we had before. It was not true.
My mind has its limits. Spreadsheets appall—
Vast, drear, no-human-fathomed.
Hold them cheap
May who ne’er logged in. Nor can my small
Patience deal with this heap of [BLEEP].
I weep,Kvetch, grumble and whimper, tell myself sadly:
All change makes things worse; wolves come dressed as sheep.

                     - Stephen Grover, QC chair Philosophy