Life in a College Town by Reid Baer<br />-<br />I’ve lived here forever alone <br />in this old house previously owned <br />probably by a grave tenured <br />professor since it was first built <br /><br />and I’ve thought at least a handful <br />of Times how I’d remodel the <br />place, maybe lower the vaulted <br />ceiling, or refurbish the loo … <br /><br />Oh, so much dreaming about the <br />structure I hardly ever leave <br />the place and never quite make it <br />fit either. I sit comfortably <br /><br />a hermit remembering my<br />parochial childhood. I grew<br />up living close to the Center <br />of Learning … but never in it.<br /><br />-
