Sam Reisman

To a prospective student:
Pre-frosh, are you grinning
For your grown-up life beginning?
Is Columbia so beguiling
That it finds you ever-smiling?

The sky was gray and bluish bleak that February day:
All chocolate hearts and greeting cards and freshly trimmed bouquets.
The air was filled with promises of roses and of wine—
Except for those unlucky folks who had no Valentine.

The sky was gray and bluish bleak that February day:
All chocolate hearts and greeting cards and freshly-trimmed bouquets.
The air was filled with promises of roses and of wine—
Except for those unlucky folks who had no Valentine.

It’s fitting that the season four premiere of Lost, which aired last Thursday, should set a crucial scene at the cockpit of downed airliner Oceanic 815.

‘Twas two weeks before Christmas, and the soon-to-be grads,
Spent long nights in Butler, all hopped-up on Adds,