A Toast to the People

Here's to professors, who nitpick and praise.

Here's to good friends, who give spirits a raise.

Here's to the people I ate and I drank with.

Here's to the people I rose and I sank with.

I hate to say it, but here's to the unrequiting,

Which I can hide until it enlivens my writing.

So here's to my favorites, and here's to my jerks.

Thanks for the help–here's wishing it worked.