OCCUPATIONS: The Lecturer

The Lecturer

His feet slap the foyer-

Ambitious tickles across

The campus floor. 

Greet, salute the secular pyx as you

Step into the Common Room,

Insulated on all sides

By cork announcement boards.

Come!  Meet!  Conspire:

"Third Annual Conference on Some Grammatical Cases of Finnish":

Elative, allative, illative,

Essive, inessive, adessive,

Abessive.