just a playful exchange with friends. Easy Roader introduced a poem called "With Tenure" (by David Lehman). later on, hbai suggested me to do sth with "some materials": Beethoven had a lifetime appointment, tenured job. So was Gallileo, from Medici of Florence. Tenure may had saved Mozart from poor youthful death...it is easy enough to just re-order what he said ---
WITH TENURE
With Tenure
And silence,
Beethoven composed
Nine symphonies in a row
With tenure,
And wings - probably -
Gallileo caught the planet
Around the star?! Oh! No!
And tenure-less
Mozart died a youthful death -
Mr. Antonio Salieri they say*
You are his tenured foe!
(*I always have a soft spot for Salieri)
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