dissertbewegung

Take from me this diss-wisdom  
uptight, you doc candidate mate!
For I have been through this sight before,
through thousands of sighs;
between could-have-beens and might-as-wells,
re-citing the desert rose site;
bitter is this dissert-bewegung,
better hear this out in first.  
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The prof first gives you a fine date,
and hints at a delighting dessert
at the neigh end of night.
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Shy, much as you may, at first, 
but once that you start at it...
To brainstorm and ideate,
confessing it all out to the prof;
drafting and redrafting leaf over leaf,
counting out on their expert help --
to annotate, critic, and reshape perhaps
to make it all referee-proof.  
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The prof but just poofs themself 
away -- out of the very roof!
Leaving you to curse your own self,
with corollaries without any proof.
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And then you wander, no wonder, wander you then 
in this bitter, zitter and scattered motion
through this vast devastating desert station.
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And such is this disease, writing on the wall, dissertation.
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Thus, here hear this dish out first, 
from me, thee mighty doctoral knight! 
Through the long, lonely hours and library lights,
universal is this academic plight. 
Call it the writer's block, or rather desert rock, but, yet, 
dare not you call it the date! Kicking the half-full bucket.
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Do not desert your dissertation, 
stay stationed straight.
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Do not miss the desert-sight
for any number of dates!!
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And never trust a professor 
for any shiny date!!!






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A friend unintentionally provoked me with a wordplay meme:
"I had a fantastic date last night, 
tonight I shall try a grape!"
Now, such memes almost always crack wide open 
a pandora of wordplays, with me, the history suggests!
So I ended up quickly completing the first draft of this one, 
with a very little help from the geminai (esply for drawing cartoon above)... 
And then, finalizing it of with the feedbacks from the llama4scout@duck.ai!
And ofc, no proof to say this is intended to harm any actual prof! 
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Lekhin.., the prof might feel 'Welcome' to say...