Validation by Publication
Said the scholar with delight, “I’ve been sourced!”
The one great sentence that arrived unforced
had drawn a reader’s ovation.
The researcher’s one hundred and fourth citation
was the icing on the cake.
Win the lottery? She’d rather be endorsed!
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Love this! 🙂
3 thoughts:
1) “Readers” is what we write for, even if it’s only partners and grandchildren we force it on.
2) Nice snapshot of ACAdemia
3) Poetry ain’t science.
Fun look at academia. Love the rhyme and sentiment.
Oh, this is fantastic! It captures academia well. Nicely done.
I so understand this!
When you’re there it seems such a chore, looking back I marvel at what it must still mean to those still there. There is a secret, but they will find out in time.