When College Professors Laugh

When College Professors Laugh

When college professors laugh,
they don’t laugh the way that I laugh,
or the way juveniles laugh.

College professors laugh with their brains,
not with their mouths. They are less
loud; their bodies make smaller movements.

Professor’s laughs are gentrified,
duly induced by what has been deemed
“intelligent humor” by the Governing Board
of Most Respectable and Deeply Experienced Authorities,
Which Governing Board Governs Ubiquitously.

In fact, college professors rarely laugh at all.
They have less reason to.
But when they do, be assured that their laughter is
reserved for very fitting and proper occasions.
For example, college professors laugh mostly at
college professor parties with their
college professor friends, when they
pass around student essays-
they chortle at naiveté,
they titter at a ill-used semi-colons;

Indeed, college professors laugh at bon mots,
not at farts.

They laugh at pointed insights,
revelatory quips into the human condition
as recorded in academical and scholastical publications;
The antics of poodles move them not.