I met a truly giant lad
In a service station near Manchester
I told him where I'd been an undergrad
But he seemed a little bit skeptical
He was a hundred times the size of me
And I met him again around Hertfordshire
He seemed a little confused, I thought,
When I told him about my PhD
Another time, before I'd uttered a Hello
He accosted me aggressively at a college ball
And I wanted to explain I was newly made Fellow
But he was so very angry, I pretended not to know him
Poems by Harry Edwards 
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