Upon a remark made to me by an observant and sympathetic member of the custodial staff of my university, after witnessing me repeatedly dropping books all over from the ridiculously massive stack I am trundling out of the library at 11:30 pm on a Tuesday


"Sometimes
you just can't
win fer losin'."
She smiled wryly
with a wise twinkle
that conveyed more knowledge
than that whole
damn
library.
After 22 years of school
I can safely say
that I usually like the janitors
more
than I like most of the students.