Thank God for the word
Category. Without it I would hardly know
What to do with myself.
There would be nothing to compare, reject, establish, or
Best of all, problematize.
There would certainly be no disciplines
And without disciplines, nothing excitingly
Interdisciplinary. In short
There would be nothing to say.
There may not even be any Notions
And without that the University
(But let’s face it, the world)
Would be a real free-for-all, an utterly
Unclassified ether. So a toast
to the constant vigil,
dividing, defining, drawing the line
That we tow. To the first categorical imperative: a priori
There must be a category.

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