Degrees

What happens if you receive someone else's PhD? I'm serious. People always say: "And then I went for my PhD" or "I got my PhD at Walla-Walla University" but what if you got someone else's by mistake. You wouldn't be able to understand a word of it. It would be so embarrassing. You'd have to say, "And then I got Doug Thomsen's PhD," or whoever's name was embossed in gold on it. Say it was an MFA! And it still wasn't yours. You'd be stuck saying "And then, aw, then, aw, well then I got this MFA see, I was going for my PhD but I got this, this is what they gave me, it's poetry, prose poetry I think, yaw." I don't know, there sure are a lot of problems in life. Not least of which is: If you have Tiny Bludgeon's MFA, who the hell has your PhD???? Probably the same motherfucker who has your eyes, your nose, your smile, your ways: THAT CANNIBAL.

© Mairead Byrne