I’m reading my undergraduate thesis

Written in 1972

While a six hour tape of music plays

I got the thesis out

In preparation for

Sharing it with my friend Rosalind

And decided to peek at it

To see what she would be encountering

The music tape, on VHS,

Is part of a series of several dozen

Recorded in 1991

To gather the songs

At the level “I really like it”

From my music collection

(There are higher levels,

Grouped under the heading “Himalayas”)

And is sequenced by song title

At the exact moment that

I reach the sentence

“True love is thus telepathy-catalytic:…”

The Fleetwood Mac song

“Gold Dust Woman” is on

And Stevie Nicks says

“True loves make bad lovers”

We can only hope that’s

Just Stevie's opinion J

(For fairness in reporting, I have to relate that after writing the above I looked up the lyrics, and Stevie is actually saying "Rulers make bad lovers." All this time I thought she was saying "True loves make bad lovers" --- it just illustrates how what often gets acted upon is what we think is true, versus what actually is true...)