George and I walk a lot
and talk a lot.
We get nowhere with our walk
and do it over
again and again.
We get nowhere with our talk
and say it
again and again.
Walk a lot,talk a lot,
not meant to get somewhere
or to establish final truth.
Once we were younger
and with our students
drank a lot.
The beer was nice,
but we never felt
a resulting high.
We taught a lot in
our classroom in the bar.
We thought of our
offices and classrooms
as the oasis where
students could
could escape from
the desert drought.
We went to silly
department meetings a lot
and I talked a lot
and George didn't.
Then we ran a lot
and rehearsed what
we should have said.
And nothing changed a lot
and silliness ruled.
So there you have
the lot of it.
We walk and we talk and
don't care where we get.
In the silly meetings
we got no place because
my hot breath
wouldn't melt the iceberg
but who weeps
for such a mismatch defeat ?
So if you are keeping score,
we did a lot, we do a lot,
but only in
that classroom in the bar
did we accomplish a lot.