No one is as smart, or as beautiful, as you think.
Smile at peace with yourself, with this knowledge.
After getting a degree, you stay, and end up working at the college;
What makes these things is safer than dancing with these things on the brink.
A brush with fame at the commencement ceremony,
A nice feeling stayed with you all summer,
Surprised at how good you felt from the second drink,
The nice things he confided made him seem like a fool,
But you let a tipsy compliment flatter,
Intrigued that he would soon be teaching at the school;
His foreign policy creds garish and suspect,
A family friend once owned a condo in Trump Tower,
Some talk of Syria. His handshake was nice when he had to go.
He claimed to know about Putin. On his phone was a joke about Brigitte Bardot.