For an Early Retirement

Chinless and slouched, gray-faced, and slack of jaw,
Here plods depressed Professor Peckinpaugh,
Whose verse J. Donald Adams found “exciting.”
This fitted him to teach Creative Writing.

— Donald Hall

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