A note to college professors...

This Old Typewriter
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I don't know how many people have filtered through claiming they are the next Hemingway, Poe, Einstein...
I'm not one of those people.
I won't even try to give them a run for their money.
But you,
Both of us will be running to the finish line.

I'm like nothing you have ever seen before.
I won't claim I know everything,
I'll claim I know very little.
And really?
I can't figure out which is worse.
I think it might be easier to fight with a moron who is oblivious,
Rather than a person who realizes it.

I write how I think,
[With a little more censorship, but probably not enough and sometimes too much]
And people don't think in paragraph form.
I'll humor you, sure, sometimes we have to follow orders,
But really I'm going to be kicking and screaming the whole way there.
I promise you won't notice.

I'm a slow learner,
Unfortunately.
But persistant.
It takes me a while to get there, but once I do there is rarely anything you can do to stop me.
I don't walk, I run.
Don't give up on me, and I promise I won't give up on you.

I'm not brilliant,
But I'll make you question the way you see the world.
The way I see it...
You're supposed to change me,
But really?
It would be an awful shame if I didn't change you too.

I'm not Hemingway, Poe or Einstein,
But the next time your class filters in,
You'll be looking for the next Me.